After getting the attention of international music community with their first album in 1971, Osibisa joined Curtis Mayfield for work on the soundtrack of the seminal Blaxploitation film Superfly, and went on to record over a dozen studio albums, which included countless high-charting singles in both Britain and the United States. The band's fusion of African music with that of the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as including elements of jazz, rock, soul and R'n'B, has served as an example for countless other international artists over the years, and has also kept them sounding fresh and contemporary well into the 21st century.
After getting the attention of international music community with their first album in 1971, Osibisa joined Curtis Mayfield for work on the soundtrack of the seminal Blaxploitation film Superfly, and went on to record over a dozen studio albums, which included countless high-charting singles in both Britain and the United States. The band's fusion of African music with that of the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as including elements of jazz, rock, soul and R'n'B, has served as an example for countless other international artists over the years, and has also kept them sounding fresh and contemporary well into the 21st century.
