Live in the D – The biggest festival in the world is coming to Detroit this weekend. Afro Nation is a festival celebrating African culture through Afro Beats. SMADE and Joshusa Koram, who are ...

African music has steadily been making inroads in the U.S. music market, with world music — which includes Afrobeats, K-pop and more — seeing the most growth compared to other genres according to ...

For much of Leonard Novati’s early upbringing, life was confined inside the walls of a refugee camp. Like many Burundi families between the 1970s and ’90s torn by civil war, Novati’s parents were ...

Lala Tamar is what happens when Moroccan soul and Brazilian beats meet on the dance floor. A singer, dancer, and gimbri ...

Introduction. Some notes before we begin ; Beginnings ; Basic drum technique ; Rhythmic vocabulary patterns -- Stage 1 rhythmic vocabulary patterns. Gankogui and Axatse ; Obwahsimisah: a game song ; ...

The Bay Area has a vibrant and eclectic music scene, but when Jessica Kariisa moved here last year she couldn’t find many places playing the African dance hits she loves. She’d spent time in big East ...

The world’s largest music publisher Vivendi owned Universal Music Group (UMG) is taking its hop hop talents to Africa with the launch of Def Jam Africa, the first of UMG’s flagship labels to exist as ...

In much of the world, house music has already had its day — but in South Africa, it is pop music. Here's why this musical genre has remained king. If you travel to South Africa, you will hear house ...

LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - If African music is often wildly joyful and uplifting, its myriad variations were largely born from a history of slavery and suffering, imperialism and immigration. It's a ...

Clockwise from top left: Busiswa Gqulu, Tems, Tula, Amaarae, Moonchild Sannelly, Uncle Waffles, Ayra Starr, Aya Nakamura, and Tiwa Savage. Collage by Ashley Peña Africa, with its 54 countries and more ...

The academy also announced the best alternative jazz album award and is allowing all Grammy voters, who have limitations in the number of categories they can vote in, to put their bids in for ...