Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

Boni Maleke shares her heartfelt journey of faith and gratitude through her new gospel EP ‘Umhlengi Wami’, aiming to inspire ...

PROFESSORS Adeoluwa Ayokunle Okunade and Bode Omojola are illustrious Nigerian scholars who are powerfully advancing African music on the world stage. Okunade, a renowned Professor of Ethnomusicology ...

South Africa is once again wrapped in emotion as fans, family members and the music industry celebrate what would have been Kiernan “AKA” Forbes’ 38th birthday. Though the late rapper was tragically ...

He is a man who is officially off the market. The year 2026 has kicked off with an exciting start for many! As we celebrate the month of love, Gospel singer Lusanda Beja and wife, Zimkhitha, who has ...

Ariel Seidman declared persona non grata and given 72 hours to leave country after remarks on social media South Africa and Israel have engaged in a tit-for-tat expulsion of senior diplomats, after ...

It’s like the old proverb says: How can you win the hearts and minds of a nation if you can’t even keep Shinedown on your side? Such is the plight of Kid Rock’s Rock The Country music festival, which ...

SOUTH MIAMI, Fla. — Cheers erupted inside a classroom at South Miami Senior High School when students learned their band director, Jennifer Jimenez, had been named the 2026 Grammy Music Educator of ...

The Kid Rock–backed Rock the Country festival is no longer moving forward in South Carolina, after a wave of artist withdrawals effectively collapsed one of its scheduled tour stops. Anderson County, ...

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