Often boosted by social media, many of them got their start with independent labels or by uploading self-made songs to streaming platforms. Now, bigger labels and streaming services are catching on.

Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for ...

I’m going to obviously keep one at the studio because that was my dream,” Jelly Roll told Entertainment Tonight in a Wednesday, February 4, interview alongside his Star Sea ...

Billy F. Gibbons is a rock ‘n’ roll lifer, which comes as no news to fans of ZZ Top, the Texas blues trio he’s fronted since ...

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 ...

Abuja — Gospel Cinema International has launched the Africa Gospel Film Project (AGFP), a new initiative aimed at building capacity among Christian filmmakers across Africa and expanding the continent ...

There’s a well-known saying that the most segregated hour in the U.S. is 11 a.m. on Sunday. That aphorism reflects the longstanding reality that 86% of churches lacked meaningful racial diversity as ...

The festival announced its full lineup on Thursday. US DJ Dennis Ferrer and Shimza will also headline the Resistance second stage. Johannesburg - Saturday, 25 April 2026 at Expo Centre at Nasrec Cape ...

Smallwood was nominated eight times for Grammy Awards. By The Associated Press Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. He was 77.

Richard Smallwood, the Grammy-nominated gospel singer whose music has been covered by Destiny’s Child and Whitney Houston, has died. He was 77. A rep for Smallwood confirmed to Variety that he died of ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...