Ayoola Sadare — or Inspiro as he is fondly called by close friends — is known in the jazz scene for his famous Lagos International Jazz Festival. There have been other iterations of the festival to reflect the growth of the genre in Nigeria. However, nowadays, there is only one word on Sadare’s lips: Global Afrobeats Kulture Festival .
Initially, he planned to have a Lagos International Jazz, Afrobeats and Fuji Festival . That was in 2019. But the pandemic struck in 2020 and the plan was shelved. Notwithstanding, the Lagos International Jazz Festival still held virtually. It was while analysing the happenings on the Afrobeats that he got the brain wave to establish GAKFEST. The idea was simply to celebrate the different sounds of Nigerian music in a festival style instead of lumping them all together. But more importantly, it was about the culture of Afrobeats.
“One thing we want to establish is that Lagos — and I’m not denigrating other cities — is Afrobeats capital. It is not Kano, Abuja, or Ibadan. It is Lagos. Over 90 per cent of the proponents, even if they come from somewhere else, make it in Lagos. The studios, the musicians, and the structures are all in Lagos. The music is churned out from here.
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