South African Music Awards (SAMA) recently announced their top five artists with the most nominations across all categories.

Zahara, a singer from South Africa who found great success with multiple platinum-selling albums and a slew of awards throughout her career, has passed away. She was 36. The sad news was confirmed by ...

2023 has been another exceptional year for African music – besides catering to pan-African dancefloors and listeners who stream from home, engaging with contemporary African music is trendy and cool.

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...

An American producer hailed South Africa as home to the best English-speaking MCs outside the US, praising the country’s unmatched musical talent in a viral podcast clip.

Infectious, contagious, catchy. It should be no surprise that amapiano, the South African offshoot of house music that rose to international prominence during the pandemic, is frequently described in ...

AWARD winning artist, Mukudzei Mukombe, popularly known as Jah Prayzah is set for a hostile reception in South Africa as calls for a boycott of his show grow louder.Jah Prayzah is scheduled to perform ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

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

In Lesotho, a style of traditional accordion music called Famo has become entangled with deadly gang rivalries. Once the ...