Many diaspora musicians are blending traditional African sounds with modern genres like hip-hop, jazz, and electronic music. ...
On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...
Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...
From the early seventies’ Bloc Parties in the Bronx to musicians streaming songs to audiences worldwide, today’s hip hop scene is borderless. But for the African artists making waves worldwide, ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. They say that music is an international language and no matter where you’re from you ...
LONDON, May 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leading African female musicians have recorded a video of songs and instrumental music, joining a "Poverty is Sexist" campaign to put women and girls at ...
Local artists generated over R504 million on Spotify alone, a 28% increase year-on-year and nearly double the earnings since ...