Since black music didn’t start here in the United States during slavery, it makes sense for the study of the art form to reach across the Atlantic to its roots in Africa. This is what Ghana-born ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Afrobeats star Tiwa Savage has partnered with Berklee College of Music for a new foundation developing the next wave of African artists.

Tiwa Savage is ready to unlock talent back home in Africa. She's launched the Tiwa Savage Music Foundation to help empower "the next generation of African creatives — through music, education, and ...

On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...

Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for ...

Dar es Salaam. It is difficult to discuss the international success of Bongofleva star Diamond Platnumz, 36, without mentioning Davido, 33, from Nigeria, who performed in the country last ...