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 ...
South African multi-award-winning artist Kingdmusic has released his highly anticipated fifth studio album, “Joy”. Kingdmusic (Denga Takalani) expressed joy over seeing people actually engaging with ...
Tyla, Lira and TxC lead South Africa’s 2027 Grammy push, with entries across multiple major categories ahead of the nominees’ ...
“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 ...
Whether you can’t get “Water” out of your head or are just feeling curious about the youngest African artist to ever take home a Grammy, we know you’re here because you have questions about Tyla Laura ...
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 ...
"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 ...