Pop star, Shakira, said she had always loved wanted to do something with Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Burna Boy.This, she said, was the reason she chose him for the official 2026 FIFA World Cup anthem, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yannis was exposed to African music by his South African mother. He calls Sounds of Soweto “simple childhood wallpaper of music.” ...

Nigerian Afrobeat singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has said he never doubted that his music career would succeed, even before he had achieved anything, describing his self-belief as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2Baba, Tiwa Savage, and Shatta Wale Most people confuse Afrobeat and Afrobeats but don’t know that the two are predominantly ...

Featuring fan-favorite tracks "Call Me Baby," "Isabella," and "Dark 2 Light," the project marks a new chapter for the ...

Tributes have been paid to pioneering Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, who has died aged 79. Nigeria-born Allen, along with Fela Kuti, helped define the Afrobeat genre as part of the band Africa '70. His ...

On 18 February 1977 a thousand soldiers from the Nigerian army stormed a communal compound in Lagos that outlaw bandleader Fela Kuti had declared his own independent state: the Kalakuta Republic. They ...

Afrobeats star Davido has revealed that his biggest fear is not losing popularity but not knowing the right time to step away ...

Joni Haastrup started out singing spot-on covers of James Brown and Wilson Pickett in Lagos bars in the mid-1960s. But with his own band, MonoMono, he became part of a movement to fuse soul, funk and ...