Exploring the incredible legacy of 'Sons of Ethiopia', the revolutionary album released in 1984 that completely redefined ...

Amapiano - a genre born in South Africa's townships during the previous decade -- has rapidly evolved from a local blend of jazz and house music with traditional log drums into a pan-African ...

Nilly Jaden blends traditional Bapedi sounds with the modern urban pulse of Gauteng, to pioneer “Lekompo R&B”.

Joe Sheehan has traveled quite a distance — literally — since he first began taking piano lessons while growing up in ...

At 76, Hansrajh 'Butterfly' Lukhan remains an icon of traditional Indian dance in South Africa. Despite family opposition and ...

Nduduzo Makhathini, a South African jazz pianist and traditional healer, blends modern jazz with Zulu spirituality, creating ...

Bomba and Plena music, Puerto Rico’s traditional rhythms, are having a global moment. Bad Bunny has helped elevate the genres ...

When Ghana announced its initiative, The Year of the Return, in 2019 to welcome the African diaspora back to the continent ...

His Royal Badness asked to play guitar on “Soldier in the Army of the Lord.” None of those riffs from “Purple Rain,” just ...

The snap beans aren’t salted." "Zydeco" is rooted in R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and soul music, and indigenous to rural Southwest Louisiana, created by French-speaking, African Americans of Creole heritage.

At the African Institute of Music, he is helping Uganda reclaim jazz on its own terms, blending ancestral rhythms with global ...