Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few phrases define the year in music and culture like Moliy’s scintillating directive to “shake it to the max.” The Ghanaian ...

Artists from the continent are breaking into the Western mainstream. We’ve got a playlist for your weekend cookout. By Desiree Ibekwe This week, The Times published a profile of Tems, a 28-year-old ...

Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated by ...

It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. ...

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 ...