It has been three years since the Recording Academy introduced the Best African Music Performance category at the Grammy Awards, creating what many believed would be a historic opportunity for African ...

For years, East African musicians have created sounds that have travelled across borders, filled dance floors and attracted audiences beyond the region.From Bongo Flava and Singeli in Tanzania to ...

Burna Boy has cemented his status as African music’s biggest commercial force, topping a new ranking from global data ...

While Afrobeats and other African sounds are dominating international charts, organisers of the Africa Music Business Roundtable ...

C.R.E.A.M. D'Banj, founder and CEO, C.R.E.A.M The tie-up is designed to move emerging African artists onto the global stage, ...

It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. ...

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

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At 2 p.m. Feb. 3, I met John Fleming, his sister, and Ruby Miller, at the American Museum of Science and Energy. It was my privilege to provide a tour to acquaint our speaker for the evening with ...