Explore the rich history of the South African Music Awards as we celebrate the biggest winners and their unforgettable ...

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 ...

Global tech giants are exploiting South African music to train AI, leaving local artists grappling with authenticity and ...

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

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

Over the last decade, Afrobeats has become a global phenomenon, bringing African music into the Western mainstream. There’s now an Afrobeats category at the MTV Video Music Awards, and performers like ...

A billboard in Nairobi for Safaricom, Kenya’s largest mobile service provider, featuring veteran rapper and producer Jua Cali. Andrew J Eisenberg Last year was a good one for the music recording ...