Those who attended The
Headies 2012 awards show on Saturday October 20, were surprised when
the show ended without musician Femi Kuti gracing the stage.
It had been highly publicized that the
respected Afrobeat singer-saxophonist was to perform at the prestigious awards
show -his first ever. He was also to be inducted into the well respected ‘Hall
of Fame‘.But Femi never showed up, rather he stayed behind at the New Afrika Shrine where the recently concluded Felabration 2012 was going onNET placed a call to Yeni Kuti, Femi’s elder sister who didn’t divulge much information other than there was a ‘slight misunderstanding’.
But an inside source close to the Kuti family tells us it was more than a misunderstanding, allegedly having to do with the failure of the awards organizers and Kuti’s managers to reconcile last minute differences.
‘They
were meant to pay Shoki shoki (Femi) some balance for logistics but as at
Saturday evening we hadn’t received the money,
so he stayed back at the Shrine for Felabration‘, a reliable source told us
in anonymity. We could not immediately confirm this.
The Headies does not pay musicians for
performances, and this is the first time a Hall of Fame inductee will stay away
from the glamorous event.
No word yet from the organizers about
why Femi was absent.
NET
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