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    Fela! stops by Philly’s NBC 10

    Michelle Williams (Sandra) and cast member Adesola Osakalumi (Fela) talk to NBC 10 about their performances in Fela! now playing at the Merriam Theater through March 17. Watch interview below: View more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com.

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    Michelle Williams to be honored at NVEEE and Fela! event

    Michelle Williams will be honored at a reception given by the National Voices for Equality, Education, and Enlightenment (NVEEE) for their 2nd Annual “Voices of Leadership” Reception and Miami Launch Party for Tony Award-Winning Musical FELA. Michelle Williams is a national spokesperson for NVEEE’S anti-bullying campaign. For more information, see the press release and flyer below on the event: National Voices for Equality, Education and Enlightenment (NVEEE) Joins Forces with Grammy Award-Winner Michelle Williams, and Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical FELA! Jaclyn Stapp, Award-Winning Author of Wacky Jacky, and Michelle Williams of the hit R&B Group “Destiny’s Child” and Celebrity Spokespersons for the anti-bullying organization, are among the honorees at NVEEE’s…

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    Philly: Michelle Williams says joining Fela! was her ‘Destiny’

    YOU HEARD IT here first, people: Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams may very well be psychic. Bear with me now. Williams, who is starring in “Fela!” at the Merriam Theater starting Tuesday and running through Sunday, became a fan of Fela Kuti’s music about five years ago through a friend. “I love the groovy music where the bass could go on for hours,” Williams told me. So, she started researching as much as she could about the Afrobeat musician and political activist. “I didn’t know I was preparing myself for this role.”

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    Michelle Williams, of Destiny’s Child, ‘honored’ to be a part of musical ‘Fela!’

    Michelle Williams, one part of the famous trio Destiny’s Child, got hooked on Fela Kuti’s music a few years ago. “I became a fan maybe five or six years ago,” she said. Kuti, a Nigerian composer and activist, who created his own type of music, Afrobeat — a style of music in which he mixed pounding eclectic rhythms with strong political lyrics — became something of a fascination for Williams. “He politicized his music. He knew something was wrong, that his country corrupt. So he put that into his music.”