Orlando Julius Live in Concert in 2015. Photo by Kmeron/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND A titan of Nigerian highlife had passed on at 79. With a career spanning almost six decades Orlando Julius stamped his foot ...

In his new book lecture Tuesday, CU Boulder researcher Reiland Rabaka focuses on the relationship between the Black Women’s Liberation Movement and its music, heralding pioneers like Aretha Franklin ...

When I first heard of Erykah Badu’s Unfollow Me Tour, I questioned the name. Who in their right mind would want to unfollow the poetic enigma who single-handedly changed the music game with her ...

She even tutored Stevie Wonder on Afro-Soul music. Fadumo-Nakruma joined the Somali National Army in 1964 as a nurse recruit to support her country while it was warring with Ethiopia over disputed ...

A pattern is starting to appear in Cimafunk’s album titles. The Afro-Cuban funk artist named his 2017 debut “Terapia,” or “Therapy,” and his 2021, Grammy-nominated follow-up was called “El Alimento,” ...