Tyla's mission is clear. She's setting out to change the geography of pop stardom. "It's something I feel like the industry is lacking," the singer declares. "An African pop star." Fresh off a year of ...

Clockwise from top left: Busiswa Gqulu, Tems, Tula, Amaarae, Moonchild Sannelly, Uncle Waffles, Ayra Starr, Aya Nakamura, and Tiwa Savage. Collage by Ashley Peña Africa, with its 54 countries and more ...

Nasty C’s music often explores themes of identity, social commentary, and personal growth, showcasing his storytelling ability and poetic flow. He continues to push the boundaries of South African hip ...

There’s no formula to emerging from the seemingly endless sea of available music in the past twenty or so years — and yet from kwaito on, South African electronic music has done just that, both ...

Bubbling is a monthly series highlighting emerging artists on the cusp of major breakthrough. America is highly overrated. “I just remember not feeling like it was a real place before I actually got ...

“Do you mind if I just stay in my robe?” Tyla asks, her slippers already on the floor. The 23-year-old South African pop star seems even smaller than her 5-foot-3-inch frame as she curls into the ...

The first thing to know about Tyla, Johannesburg’s biggest pop ingenue, is that she has had at least one literal dream about her Spotify numbers going up. The second thing is that she’s proud of that ...

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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 be ...

"South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of ...

Creating connections. South African music : The lion sleeps tonight ; Twentieth-century political history ; Twentieth-century entertainment history : live and mediated ; Graceland (1986) : world music ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African pop singer Lebo Mathosa, a leading star of the country's home-grown "kwaito" style of hip-hop music, was killed in a car crash on Monday, her manager said.