At the center of that growth are newer genres of Afrobeats — the renowned blend of distinct West African music styles — and amapiano, which fuses South African kwaito with African jazz ...

Jason Iley, chair and chief executive of Sony Music UK, pokes his head around ... sound that blends dancehall and UK hip-hop with west African genres such as Afrobeats, which began in Nigeria ...

The weekly event, formed in 2022, uses amapiano (a jazzy subgenre of South African ... music.” Tor-Herbert specializes in Afro-fusion choreography — a blend of several street and social dance ...