In South Africa, several forms of trance dance are depicted in the rock art. These scenes typically show clapping female figures accompanying male dancers, who are often shown bending forward. In some ...

In Minneapolis and elsewhere, groups like Singing Resistance are organizing to bring music into protest movements, sharing ...

Ghanaian singer Moliy and producer Silent Addy’s “Shake It to the Max (Fly)” remix with Jamaican artists Shenseea and Skillibeng was certified Gold in the ...

Peter Roshilo Atika, the musician mostly known for the Luhya song Moyo Kwahenya (The Heart Wants), never imagined that ...

Few individuals embody the evolution of Kenyan radio like Fred Obachi Machoka, popularly known as Uncle Fred, arguably the country’s most recognisable and longest-serving broadcaster. Now in his 50th ...

As Iranians mourn thousands of protesters killed in a brutal state crackdown, two artists living outside Iran have published an anthem for the protest movement. Pooyan Moghaddassi, a Vienna-based poet ...

A Kisii family has shared the painful final moments of Ezra Obiero, whose death has touched many Kenyans online, as it happened two years after the death of his wife Ezra died on Sunday, January 18, ...

With its roots in the '60s and the honky-tonk style forged by Hank Williams, outlaw country music began to snowball in the early '70s as more and more artists bristled against the genre's ...

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...

Through a video call, Fred Mbaalu, (music teacher and artist at Hope Music Foundation) gave Hank a video tour of the orphanage and the children’s music program. “That was our first inter-country ...