Joni Haastrup started out singing spot-on covers of James Brown and Wilson Pickett in Lagos bars in the mid-1960s. But with his own band, MonoMono, he became part of a movement to fuse soul, funk and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yannis was exposed to African music by his South African mother. He calls Sounds of Soweto “simple childhood wallpaper of music.” ...

Wales-based Nigerian Afrobeat artiste Don Gz has released a new single titled Oh My Days, a song that explores themes of love, vulnerability and emotional expression while remaining rooted in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2Baba, Tiwa Savage, and Shatta Wale Most people confuse Afrobeat and Afrobeats but don’t know that the two are predominantly ...

Featuring fan-favorite tracks "Call Me Baby," "Isabella," and "Dark 2 Light," the project marks a new chapter for the ...

On 18 February 1977 a thousand soldiers from the Nigerian army stormed a communal compound in Lagos that outlaw bandleader Fela Kuti had declared his own independent state: the Kalakuta Republic. They ...

Rosslyn Jazz Fest returns Sept. 12 with Plena Libre, four bands, food trucks and free performances in Arlington.

The Philharmonie de Paris is devoting an exhibition to the king of Afrobeat. Produced in close collaboration with his immediate friends and family, it fervently conveys the Nigerian musician’s sense ...

Music was invented/discovered. About 60000 years passed and these Nigerian geniuses Fela and Tony came to LA and fell in love with Black American Music, so they fused it with High Life and Yoruba ...