A Nigerian superstar is courting an audience in America and worldwide with her latest album, “Celia.” By Jon Pareles For a singer and songwriter just making her American album debut, Tiwa Savage is ...

Afrobeats is no longer a trend, it’s a full-fledged movement. Many of the biggest stars in the world are creating unique, fun, and creative Afrobeats music and it has everyone across the world dancing ...

Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws inspiration from hip-hop, R&B, dancehall and more while incorporating ...

“I SWEAR TO make sure you never forget about me,” sings Burna Boy on the opening track of “Twice as Tall”, which was released last month. These days there is little chance of that. The Nigerian ...

With a 33-piece orchestra and surprise guests, Asake became the first African artist to headline Red Bull Symphonic in the ...

In pulsating rhythms, where beats fuse with soul and melodies that spark spirits, a musical revolution has emerged, carrying within it the power to unite and ignite the essence of the Black community ...

Spotify has launched Afrobeats: Culture in Motion, a global projecttracing five years of the genre's evolution and the people propelling it forward. In the last 12 months Afrobeats has generated over ...

Disc jockey Nonso Temisan Ajufo, popularly known as DJ Big N, has expressed concern over what he described as the worst decline in Afrobeats’ global influence in two decades. Speaking in a recent ...

Afrobeats – the pulsating, fusion sound coming out of West Africa and the diaspora – has been on the rise globally for the better part of a decade. In recent years, the genre has gained a foothold in ...