Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

In December, the late Nigerian superstar became the first African musician to get a Grammy lifetime achievement award. Now he ...

This post was updated May 22 at 9:43 p.m. Community and tradition inspire the performers of the Old-Time String Band and African American Music Ensemble. Each class of musical performers has shared a ...

Etran de L’Aïr (“stars of the Aïr region”) are a four-piece rock band from Agadez, Niger, a West African city that has an estimated population approximately the size of Santa Fe County, situated 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.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The Mind Lab is pursuing small-scale AI models specifically trained on the African cultural context, enabling tools to ...

DAKAR, Senegal - Portions of the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Band and Chorus recently finished a tour filled with cultural exchanges in the western most part of Africa. Members of the band’s Alliance ...

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Music veteran Charles Goldstuck has warned Africa risks becoming a consumer, not a shaper, of generative AI music.