There’s nothing like watching a crowd react to a drop you crafted in your room at 3am. That connection is everything.” ...

JOHANNESBURG, July 29 (Reuters) - South African musical export Amapiano has crossed borders and cultural barriers, reaching as far as Japan. To top female artists Kamo Mphela and DBN Gogo, who helped ...

His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town Amapiano is a soulful mix of grooves, sonic textures and moods that can be by turns hectic, smooth, melodic or ...

A music and dance collective has grown beyond day parties into a full-fledged cultural community — bringing its unfettered ...

Marvel’s Black Panther is once again roaring in multiplexes with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” opening Friday, and there will be much internet ink spilled over what life must be like in the ...

A little over 10 years ago now, an obscure song from Pretoria, South Africa flipped dancefloors across the Northern Hemisphere on their ears. It was called “Township Funk,” and if you know it, you are ...

Is it possible that rhythms pounded out on African drums can have a healing effect on our troubled world? After sitting in on a practice session of Ballet Manden, a West African drum, dance and ...

Janka Nabay, a singer, songwriter and bandleader from Sierra Leone who modernized an ancient tradition called bubu and carried it worldwide, died Monday in the Kambia district in northern Sierra Leone ...

Ciza always knew his time to rule would come. His father Thembinkosi "TK" Nciza co-founded TS Records in 2001 with Sbusiso Leope, a radio DJ and TV presenter better known as DJ Sbu. And his mother ...