Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a ...

While many African artists have been able to ride the wave of Afrobeats’ international popularity, musicians including Tyla and Burna Boy are now pushing for global recognition beyond the genre.

Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, becoming the first African solo artist to receive the honor. The legendary Nigerian musician will be ...

The Tabernacle Choir's broadcast will feature choirs in Utah and Nigeria and will be aired to 8 million people in Africa. Here’s how to watch.

Since black music didn’t start here in the United States during slavery, it makes sense for the study of the art form to reach across the Atlantic to its roots in Africa. This is what Ghana-born ...

On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...

Africa's star musicians hit the red carpet this past weekend at the annual All Africa Music Awards, celebrating the continent's best talent. The four-day event culminated Sunday evening at an awards ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...