A country music group from the Democratic Republic of Congo plan to shake up the music world on Apple TV+ new music competition series, My Kind of Country. In the exclusive clip below, creative ...

Tabu Ley, one of the stars of 'Congo Funk!', and his band African Fiesta National in 1970 From the south bank’s perspective, the two-way musical trade between each country was complicated in 1971 when ...

Jon Batiste's "Big Money" tour stop in Akron was one for the ages: a masterful, two-hour romp through all things musically ...

This year has seen the untimely deaths of two of the world’s most important cultural ambassadors. The Congolese rumba composer and TPOK Jazz singer Pepe Ndombe Opetum passed on around the same time we ...

The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

As people sought shelter under old oak trees, the Louisiana rain played percussion on the puddles. Just above that familiar sound, the siren song of Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra ...

Congo Square, the historic common that is now part of Armstrong Park but was once a market and gathering place for enslaved Africans, is the subject of a weekend-long symposium and music festival.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the private morgue where his body was ...

Later this month, Jon Batiste will release a new album of solo piano compositions, Beethoven Blues, via Verve/Interscope. The Grammy and Oscar-winning musician’s new single, “5th Symphony in Congo ...

Grammy Award-winning producer and musician Timbaland is one of the many celebrities and musicians who own non-fungible tokens. Timbaland is also the owner of a Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the most ...