American music magazine, Billboard has unveiled its first-ever list of the 50 Best Afrobeats Songs of All Time, with Nigerian stars dominating the rankings.The list of the best Afrobeats songs of all ...

Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeat artiste Eric Opoku, popularly known as Ricky, has opened up about the reasons behind his ...

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 ...

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.

The fun carries on tomorrow with a DJ set by dance music icons Jungle, joined by Afrobeat superstars Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, as ...

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 ...

“It has Afrobeat as the base, the foundation,” he said. “And then you have a bunch of other genres sprinkled on top, just depending on the mood — hip-hop, R&B, reggae, dancehall, whatever.” ...

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 ...

Fela Kuti’s legacy plays out in music, in politics and even in food, with Nigerian restaurants paying homage to him on their menus.