After a successful tour of Europe and the America's, the ground has been set ahead of the grand spectacular concert in the country by one of Senegambia's leading salsa giants-Africando. The group is ...

The late-blooming singer and musician Gnonnas Pedro achieved world-wide fame when he joined the African salsa supergroup Africando in 1996. But he had been well known in his home- town of Cotonou, ...

African author, composer and singer Gnonnas Pedro died August 12 of prostate cancer in a hospital of Cotonou, the capital of the West African country Benin. By Billboard Staff African author, composer ...

Laba Sosseh was a Gambian salsa singer and composer. He was the undisputed master of African Salsa Music and the inventor of Salsa Mbalax dance music, Star band and Africando in Senegal. To many, Laba ...

Yesterday one of Africa’s greatest and most dynamic singers and bandleaders, Amadou “Balaké” Traore, died in Ouagadougou, the capital of his native Burkina Faso, at the age of 70. In recent years he ...

Africando is one of the most remarkably successful cross-cultural experiments in music today. The exchange of rhythms and structures between Africa and the Caribbean has been going strong since the ...

Putting African vocalists in a Manhattan studio with Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians might not seem like a surefire hit-making formula, but it’s proven extremely successful on the four previous ...