The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would ...

Tonight, for the first time, the Grammy Awards is recognizing music produced in Africa with a category of its own. Stephanie Sy reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated ...

The South African singer brought a homegrown genre, amapiano, to new ears with a viral hit and a Grammy. With her debut album, she wants to prove the world is ready for a full-blown African pop star.

The singer won the first-ever Grammy for African music performance for her sultry, gorgeously sung single “Water." Her debut, self-titled album released in March, could be a strong candidate to ...

“Everyone was coming to Atlanta first.” Helping pave the way for African culture in Atlanta are the African Student Associations (ASA) on Georgia’s college campuses, said Amaarae.

A West African banjo-like akonting instrument on display in Spain's the Casa Museo del Timple, Lanzarote. CREDIT: own work/Creative Commons “Same thing with the fiddle,” he continued.

Enslaved African Americans popularized the banjo in America, which became one of the most identifiable sounds in country music, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Biographies of important South African musicians often fall into two categories: they either emerge from PhD or other university-based research, or are the fruit of dedicated digging by a fan or ...