All posts by Adam Reifsteck

SoSaLa’s MFM Podcast Host Debut Feat. Leon “Kaleta” Ligan-Majekodunmi

Have you listened to MFM SPEAKS OUT yet? Check it out here: https://mfmspeaksout.simplecast.com/episodes/kaleta-F6R_FegB

Host SoSaLa in conversation with Fela Kuti -Egypt 80 guitarist Kaleta.

Legendary Afrobeat guitarist  Leon “Kaleta” Ligan-Majekodunmi joins “MFM Speaks Out” to share his 50-year journey through music, activism, and survival. From growing up in Benin and Lagos to touring with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Adé, Shina Peters, and Lauryn Hill, Kaleta reflects on Afrobeat as both a musical language and a political force. The conversation explores Kaleta’s firsthand experiences inside Fela’s world, and what it means to carry cultural responsibility as an artist in diaspora. Along the way, Kaleta reflects on immigration, artistic survival, gun violence in America, and why music must always carry a message. This is a powerful, unfiltered look at Afrobeat’s past, present, and future — told by someone who lived it.

SoSaLa is in Hyran Attarian’s Best 10 Albums of 2025 List

FREE JAZZ COLLECTIVE Writer Hyran Attarian’s Best 10 Albums of the Year
  • Marshall Allen – New Dawn (Weekend Records)
  • Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier – Angel Falls (Intakt Records)
  • Stian Larsen/Colin Webster/Ruth Goller/Andrew Lisle – Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch)
  • William Parker/Hugo Costa/Philipp Ernsting – Pulsar (NoBusiness)
  • Ivo Perelman and Nate Wooley – Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance)
  • Bloomers – Cyclism (Relative Pitch)
  • Amir ElSafffar – New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal 2 (Maqām Records)
  • Isaiah Collier, William Parker, William Hooker – The Ancients (Eremite)
  • Alexandra Grimal & Giovanni Di Domenico – Shakkei (Relative Pitch Records)
  • SoSaLa – 1983 – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival and Rathausplatz Bern (DooBeeDoo Records)