Launched originally as Colours Afrobeat Foundation; Boye PapaGee & Colours Afrobeat is Ire-Land’s foremost Afrobeat band; its a multicultural music project that premiered at the Drogheda Arts Centre in 2005 and had a sold-out house for the performance. With own original tunes; many years after their first performance and still waxing stronger than ever with line-up of musicians who are masters on their different instruments. Their repertoire of songs are original; provocative in nature, lightly politically intoned, spiritually uplifting, often radical but modest, culturally pro-active, consciously progressive in nature, and touched on social issues as well as exponent of global peace and the roots of the music is African. 
Boye (PapaGee & Colours Afrobeat has shared the stage with the Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio Naughty By Nature, the legendary Ghanaian guitarist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and producer-Ebo Taylor and has collaborated with musical director of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's band Africa 70 and co-founders of the genre Afrobeat the legendary Tony Allen about whom Fela Anikulapo Kuti once stated that, "without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat." 
Colours Afrobeat's founder ‘Boye (PapaGee) Akerele is a drummer, percussionist, saxophonist, singer/songwriter; studied Music Performance & Sound Technology at Kylemore College-Dublin & awarded FETAC level 5;studied Media Production & Music/Event Management at Ballyfermot College of Further Education-Dublin & awarded Higher National Diploma. He graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Music Entertainmentand Arts Management from Buckinghamshire New University UK; also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business in cultural Event Management from Dunlaoghaire Institute of Arts Design and Technology.

“Colours Afrobeat’s frontman, ‘Boye Akerele, got right back down to business and continued to coax the audience and band into a heady state of boogie-out-bliss. Colours Afrobeat Foundations’ are a culturally diverse collective and each member brings a little bit of their own ethnicity to the overall sound of the Foundation. Cuban congas meld with Santana-esque guitar licks, ‘Boye’s vocals trade call and responses with two Nubian Princesses on backing vocals, keys and bass keep it grounded and one hell of a 4 strong sharp horn section punctuate the polyrhymic stew. Afrobeat, Hi Life, Jazz and Funk all rolled up into one infectious groove.”
—  Philip Dunne, State Magazine


“'The band's debut EP PFWP-Prayer For World Peace is rich in the advanced and infectious drumming tradition of yoruba music, with a powerful djembe and bongo presence. The exuberance of the jazzy horns and multiple guitars echo the highlife element of Afrobeat. It is a radical and progressive piece of work. It is proactive in dealing with social issues and profound in pushing the message of global peace, all engulfed in the most upbeat and infectiously good music. It is a tremendous EP, celebrating the rich vintage of Afrobeat. It is both vibrant and socially aware in perfect measure, all presented as a veritable carnival of music. ”
—  Miriam Doona, Loud-Stuff

Boye PapaGee's 2018 full album titled AK47 (Music against bullets) is out and now ready for download at:
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/boyepapagee

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