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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Brooklyn’s Kaleta & Super Yamba Band is fronted by Afrobeat and Juju veteran Leon Ligan-Majek, a.k.a. Kaleta. The singer/guitarist from the West African country of Benin Republic lived his adolescent life in Lagos, Nigeria, where Afrobeat was born. Kaleta's guitar chops earned him decades of touring and recording with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Lauryn Hill, and more.

Kaleta got his start in the late ’70s performing in church and was soon after picked up by iconic Juju master and world music pioneer King Sunny Ade. A few years later the musician Fela Kuti came calling. Kaleta would go on to tour the world playing guitar for the King of Afrobeat in his storied band Egypt 80 through the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Kaleta and his band have also erupted onto the stages and video screens of major music festivals and music publications across the United States. They performed at the historic Apollo Theatre in 2019. They even prompted Action Bronson to stop his own show on VICE TV just so he could hear more Yamba. They also performed on Adult Swim’s FishCenter Live show in 2019. In 2017 they rocked Paste Magazine’s Emerging Music Festival in NYC and after that performance Afropop Worldwide fell in love with Kaleta, saying, “his James Brown grunts have got to be some of the best in the business!”

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