The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop ...

Back in 2017, after spending months holed up in Los Angeles, Wizkid proposed a grand revolution of Afropop with the release of his third studio album, Sounds From The Other Side. Running his ...

The pressure on a second album is rarely about the songs. It's about the sentence that follows an artist's name for the rest of their career. For Tyla, that sentence was written by "Water" — the 2023 ...

“Do you mind if I just stay in my robe?” Tyla asks, her slippers already on the floor. The 23-year-old South African pop star seems even smaller than her 5-foot-3-inch frame as she curls into the ...

When the South African singer Tyla took the Grammy stage to accept the first-ever award for best African music performance in 2024, it felt as if the stars had finally aligned for pop music of the ...

Tyla Laura Seethal, the Grammy-winning South African artist widely credited with popularising “popiano” has positioned her upcoming A*Pop album as a confident declaration of African music as global ...

Tyla is a carefully constructed star – she’d already been working with US major labels before her big breakthrough, and her first ever public live performance was at Milan Fashion week – but even so ...

A young lady in a TikTok video made people laugh after showing that she went to the woman, who had a blast at Oppi Platteland, a South African music concert The woman posted a clip that left South ...

"South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of ...

Pops Mohamed playing the Senegambian kora, his favourite instrument. Photo courtesy Rafs Mayet Ismail Mohamed-Jan – better known by South African jazz fans as Pops Mohamed – has passed away at the age ...