In an industry heavily dominated by men, African women are shaping the music’s future and redefining the music industry ...

African musicians are crafting a distinctive and dynamic sound by working together across genres and borders, and this trend ...

A young man from the United Kingdom shared a list of four South African songs he thought "hit differently." Locals ...

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Certain genres have completely reinterpreted what music is to the world ... streets of New Orleans in the early 20th century. Its African-American-inspired improvisational spirit shattered ...

The Grammy Awards has a dedicated space for African music, but just a year after the category's introduction it is already proving contentious. The Best African Music Performance made its debut ...

Musicians and composers generally resist having their music pigeon-holed into a single genre. In a pre-streaming world, when ...

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

Should non-African artists be considered in a category meant to showcase African talent? "Music is about inclusivity. We don't want to fence people out of genres," Grammy CEO Harvey Mason Jr tells the ...

The last time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo came to Atlanta, she grooved across the Fox Theatre stage encouraging the audience at Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday celebration to move to the ...

Here, he discusses Tems’ rise as an artist, the work that went into her 2024 debut album Born In the Wild, the record-breaking success of “Wait 4 U” and the rise of African music in the U.S ...