Ahead of his new album 'Paradise Now,' the rising artist is thriving and picking up famous fans as he shape-shifts across ...

Sandra Izsadore influenced Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti during his 1969 U.S. visit. While not its creator, her impact on the genre ...

Bengaluru's Soha Narayanan is gaining all the laurels in Hyderabad! Gracing the Telugu film industry with her playback ...

Afrobeat from Nigeria and Chinese martial arts. Host Marco Werman speaks to the musician about how these two interests influence his new album, “Lion Awakes.” Amayo dedicates the album to his ...

Rising Ghanaian musician, Jubed has expressed optimism, noting that he hopes to be the new face so far as Afrobeat is concerned.

Musician Victor Rukotana was one of the ever present local artistes of his generation who would consistently drop modern music before transitioning to Gakondo genre some few years back.

Nigerian Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti has spent over four decades carrying the torch of his father Fela’s revolutionary music and ...

This week’s pick comes from eclectic British Nigerian artist Obongjayar, who has built a rep of fusing afrobeat and electronica to great effect.

He wasn’t always so self-assured. When Obongjayar first started posting music to SoundCloud, he was making “terrible American rap,” he says, trying to be someone he was not. “If you grew ...

Well, not before they make ecstatic music together in a terrific number called “Boom Boom,” in which the call-and-response ...

Considering the worldwide influence that the late Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music has had on everyone from the Talking Heads to ...