The passing of celebrated Malian flautist, composer and arranger Boncana Maïga at the age of 77 truly marks the end of an era ...
The West African Highlife Band brings together an all-star group of distinguished West African music veterans who bring the classic sound from highlife’s golden age. Highlife originated in Ghana in ...
In celebration of International Women’s Day 2026, Sony Music West Africa announced its women’s month flagship, ‘Bloom & Bloom’, dedicated to spotlighting and accelerating the women shaping Africa’s ...
As part of International Women’s Month, Sony Music West Africa will be holding a ‘Bloom & Bloom’ event on 19-20 March in Lagos, Nigeria.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws ...
Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...
Covering three continents and four centuries, Bloomington Early Music Festival 2025 is devoted to early music of Black Africans and their descendants. Only during the past few decades have many of ...