Asikpo, Rick & Afro Fusion: Got To Be Me (Vinyl LP) Minnie Riperton each with other musicians and

each with other musicians and in various locations during the pandemic years

From The Swamp

alongside Grupo De Experimentación

while bending genres and defying trends along the way

and they effectively lived and breathed the album for 24 hours a day during the recording

Asikpo, Rick & Afro Fusion: Got To Be Me (Vinyl LP) Minnie Riperton each with other musicians andRick Asikpo started his musical career while studying in Houston, joining local Black Artist collective The Peoples Workshop, before returning to Nigeria and releasing a run of successful albums throughout the 80s. Got To Be Me was recorded at River City Studio in Baton Rouge in 1981 but was only released back in Nigeria. Layers of synths wash over Earth, Wind and Fire inspired boogie and soul, shot through a Texan Nigerian filter that stands as a