Guitarist who performs with the band Rokoto bases his music on Sierra Leone street- and folk music. Learn about his affiliation with acoustic palm wine music.
Source on the female singer, sister of Farid El Atrache. Connect to a bio, photographs, lyrics, and song clips.
Ethiopian singer who now lives in Los Angeles and whose music uses elements of jazz, soul, and R&B, is profiled.
One of only a few women who perform the mbira-based music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Learn about the ceremony of the bira at which the mbira dza vadzimu is played.
Singer and dancer born in Kisangani and brought up in Kinshasa joined Bozi Boziana's Orchestre Anti-Choc when she was 20 and went on to work with Mose Fan Fan.
Article discusses the Mali musician's recording "Tunga." Read about his instrument, the kora, and other instruments in his ensemble, including the balafon and the djembe.
Read about this Senegalese band, its leader, Babacar Dieng, and its music, based on sabar and djembe drums, Manding harp-lute, kora, and electric guitar.
Malian guitarist, born into a family of griots, musicians, and storytellers in Bamako, is profiled. Find out what his style has to do with the ngoni, balaphon, and kora.
Read up on this singer, dancer and performer on the mbira and umqangala, born in Durban, South Africa, who has recorded with Mose Fan Fan's band Somo Somo.
Summarizes the career of this vocalist and drummer, a player of the njembe and congas and active in the first generation of Congolese rhumba.
Read about the choreographer, composer, and teacher of African music and dance and his ensemble. Includes a description of the rituals of the Ewe people.
Describes the career of this Senegalese singer who grew up in Burkina Faso and whose album "Ne La Thiass" was a hit in Europe.
Read about this Senegalese musician, not a griot but from the fishermen's caste, and his use of Afro-Celt idioms in his work.
Saxophonist, nicknamed "the Lion of Cameroon," was a member of African Jazz, led by le Grand Kalle, in the 1960s. Read a profile of his subsequent career.
Read about this vocalist from Matadi in Bas-Congo, who moved to Kinshasa where he began his career, and his band, the Orchestra Virunga.
Read about the "Lion of Zimbabwe," responsible for combining traditional Shona mbira music with western instruments and establishing the musical style called chimurenga.
Promotes the album "Dreams and Secrets" from chimurenga and jazz musicians Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, Wadada Leo Smith, and N'Da Kulture.
British newspaper provides an article on the musician's response to the politics of his native Zimbabwe.
Profiles this saxophonist and member of Tabu Ley's Afrisa International from 1971 to 1994 as well as music producer and promoter.
Profiles this guitarist and singer from Kinshasa, specialist in Congolese rhumba, who has played in the Orchestre Revolution, Franco's OK Jazz, and his own Bana OK.
Dance band and nonprofit organization from Zimbabwe describes its mission. Explore the Blue Tribe and camps and classes organized by the group.
Article on the Nigerian singer and guitarist describes his career and such CDs as his Grammy Award-winning collaboration with Ry Cooder, "Talking Timbuktu."