Liberia's very own Afrobeat and R&B luminary, Stunn (Lourell AndyMark George), has announced his highly anticipated release of his latest single, "DIAMONDS." The track is slated to drop on July 31, ...

With his new album, Mádé Kútì, grandson of Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kútì, asks listeners to go deep: How can you be a ...

Son of Femi Kuti and grandson of Afrobeat progenitor Fela Kuti, Mádé Kuti has unveiled an inventive new album, 'Chapter 1: ...

For the second time since 2023, Nigerian-born Afrobeat star Charles Onyeabor was the center of attraction at the just ...

Afrobeat, more than just a genre, has evolved into a culture, a movement, a pulse of identity stretching far beyond the shores of Africa. Its dawn is not merely marked by a new sound in the global ...

GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz, funk and West African music, and it pays homage to the Afrobeat sound that Femi's father, Fela Kuti, helped create in the 1960s. Kuti spoke to us ...

His five-track debut EP, “Get Layd,” also established him as an artist to watch in the Afrobeat scene. Lay won the Next Rated award at the 2020 Headies Awards.

Afrobeat has elements of many different types of music that had spoken to him through the years, from jazz, funk and soul to traditional African music. "But it all just came together with the ...

These days, Afrobeat - an intoxicating mix of funk, jazz and traditional African music - is more popular in America and around the world than it ever was in the heyday of Fela Kuti, Femi's father ...

While we were filming, Tony said, ‘Afrobeat is the only major music genre of which you can still count the number of bands on your fingers—from Japan, France, to the U.S.—but that will ...

Charles de Ledesma tells us about Afrobeat, the latest music trend in dance clubs in London. Afrobeat originated in Lagos, Nigeria in the late 1960s. It borrows heavily from American jazz, funk ...

“Do you believe in retribution,” he asks on “Wait And See”. What might have been an invitation to fight from his elders here becomes a philosophic enquiry, one that soon yields to a delightful tenor ...