From proto-punk to grunge via prog and disco, these 14 groundbreaking tracks lit the fuse on whole new genres, shaping music ...

Veteran Afro-jazz legend Manu Dibango died Tuesday after contracting the new coronavirus, one of the first worldwide stars to ...

When Shakira sang “Tsamina mina, eh eh… Waka Waka, eh eh" back in 2010, the song stopped being just another FIFA anthem and became a full-blown global memory. School annual days, football screenings, ...

Louis Albert William Longomba is a Congolese singer, drummer, and record producer born on May 5, 1962. He is famous for pioneering the music genre known as techno-soukous, derived from ‘Rumba,' a ...

Listen to 10 new must-hear songs from African artists DJ Tunez x Wizkid x FOLA, Mavo, Kwesi Arthur and more. After Tyler, the Creator and Metro Boomin encouraged their fans to put down their phones ...

On the eve of the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park, the BBC News website profiles a small sample of the many big African artists who some critics say should have been included at the show. Blur ...

The rise of Afrobeats and Amapiano stems from years of effort to redefine African music beyond the vague ‘world music’ label into clear, distinct genres. May is celebrated worldwide as Africa Month, ...

The global coronavirus pandemic, when it arrived in our lives five years ago this week, affected the world of music in basically the same way it did everything else. Musicians froze their lives and ...