Afrobeat musician, Fela Kuti married 28 of his backup dancers in one day, after he had asked all the ladies in his band if they wanted to marry him. When all 28 of them agreed to be his wives, Fela called 12 traditional priests to preside over the wedding ceremony which took place at a hotel in Lagos, Nigeria on the 20th of February 1978.For honeymoon, Fela took all his 27 wives to Ghana.
However, eight years later in 1986, the late Fela divorced all of them at the same time with the claim that; "Marriage brings jealousy and
selfishness"
He died on On 3 August 1997, from HIV complications.
Fela Kuti is arguably the Most Persecuted Musician in History. He was arrested over 200 times and made to appear in court 356 times.