"Sometimes it’s better to not know each other as people first and just play," says Yannis Philippakis, one of the last musicians to get on the tools with the late Afrobeat pioneer, Tony Allen. (Photo ...

A handful of Nigerian afrobeat superstars have been nominated for the 2026 Grammy Awards. The shortlist was released on Friday evening. Davido and Omah ...

At the 2024 Video Music Awards (VMAs), South African singer Tyla made waves with her performance and acceptance speech after winning the “Best Afrobeat” award for her hit song, “Water.” This moment ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The video showcases the ever growing impact and influence of Afrobeat sound in the world music scene. Antibalas is a Brooklyn-based musical band modeled after the late Afrobeat pioneer and legend Fela ...

Back in the day, when Fela Kuti invented Afrobeat—and yes, unlike practically every other music to emerge in the 20th century, Afrobeat was indeed the creation of one person—the music served two ...

Seun Kuti, the youngest son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, continues his father’s groundbreaking legacy while shaping his own distinctive path in the world of music. Kuti has spent much of his life ...

Baba Kuboye, who is part of the Grammy® nominated contemporary blues album The Fury by Antonio Vegara, is one of the most vibrant figures in contemporary Afrobeat and has captivated global audiences ...

Nigerian rapper Odumodublvck has responded to critics who argue that Nigerian hip-hop and Afrobeat artists are not “real” hip-hop musicians. During a recent interview, Odumodublvck asserted that ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In February 1978, the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti got married. It was an unconventional ceremony, with 27 brides ...

It's a gritty afternoon in a gritty parking lot in a gritty South Baltimore neighborhood, and the crowd is starting to fade. For the past five hours at this human rights rally, poets and rappers have ...