Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2Baba, Tiwa Savage, and Shatta Wale Most people confuse Afrobeat and Afrobeats but don't know that the two are predominantly ...

Joni Haastrup started out singing spot-on covers of James Brown and Wilson Pickett in Lagos bars in the mid-1960s. But with his own band, MonoMono, he became part of a movement to fuse soul, funk and ...

But Fela Kuti and his music were a revelation to the seasoned veteran. "It was like lightning," he says. "I thought, 'Why haven’t I heard this before? How did this escape me?!'" Afrobeat has elements ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yannis was exposed to African music by his South African mother. He calls Sounds of Soweto “simple childhood wallpaper of music.” ...

Emerging Afrobeat artiste SVMMERBOY has released a new single titled “Bakky,” adding another upbeat record to his growing catalogue.The Lagos-based artiste describes the track as an energetic song ...

Emerging Afrobeat artiste Svmmerboy has released his latest single, “Bakky,” a high-energy track designed to bring vibrant sounds and infectious rhythms to dancefloors and digital platforms.Built ...

The people loved seeing an Englishman in Africa 70. They couldn’t believe it at first. Oyinbo (white man) drummer! They would come and press money on my forehead. It was a mark of approval. It would ...

The Nigerian musician was a restless creator who embraced the physicality of drumming and innovated until the end Few musicians can claim to have invented a revolutionary rhythm, but then few are ...

The Philharmonie de Paris is devoting an exhibition to the king of Afrobeat. Produced in close collaboration with his immediate friends and family, it fervently conveys the Nigerian musician’s sense ...

On 18 February 1977 a thousand soldiers from the Nigerian army stormed a communal compound in Lagos that outlaw bandleader Fela Kuti had declared his own independent state: the Kalakuta Republic. They ...