Rising Afrobeat artist, Danypreez, has released his latest single, “Funds,” on November 7, 2025. The track, with its ...
Most people confuse Afrobeat and Afrobeats but don’t know that the two are predominantly distinct in sound and genre. Music historians have traced origin sounds of Afrobeat in Ghana and Nigeria as ...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the pioneer of Afrobeat, built an international legacy long before The Recording Academy acknowledged it ...
Yannis Philippakis was one of the last musicians to record with the late drummer and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen. Their collaboration was released as the five-song EP Lagos Paris London under Yannis & ...
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 ...
8 musicians. One goal. To increase the positive energy in the world by making people dance! London Afrobeat Collective are a tight-knit family of musicians from around the world, living in London and ...
Afrobeats sounds and influences have risen in popularity in the United States, progressively dominating the country’s airwaves over the last several years. According to Jazzhistorytree, Afrobeat ...
Irresistibly contagious rhythms, horns, beats and vocals are on tap at The Broad Stage, Feb. 21 for one night only, as the large band Antibalas and the incredible vocalists of Zap Mama led by ...
LAGOS (Reuters) -An exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti has opened in Lagos in Nigeria, marking the African debut of an event first developed by the Philharmonie ...
Young Nigerian and German musicians joined forces at Beethovenfest for this year's DW Campus Project — making music and memories to last a lifetime.When young musicians from Nigeria and Germany took ...
Ekpenyong Otu felt adrift in Orlando. The Nigerian disc jockey, who'd spun for some of the biggest Afrobeat artists in his homeland, had moved to Florida in 2006 with the goal of developing a music ...