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 ...

The official unofficial national anthem of South Africa. Go to any sporting event or large gathering in South Africa and 'Sister Bethina is likely to be played - more than once. South Africans have ...

“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 ...

South Africans are raving over Tyla after the singer broke a 56-year-old US Billboard Hot 100 record previously held by ...

MANILA, Philippines — The newly formed boyband Dey Say from South Africa just dropped their “Christmas Wish” EP in time for the festive season. Made up of Elim (19), Dre (20), Chad (16) and Jo (20), ...

"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 ...

Gwen Ansell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Creating connections. South African music : The lion sleeps tonight ; Twentieth-century political history ; Twentieth-century entertainment history : live and mediated ; Graceland (1986) : world music ...

The song, built on a foundation of amapiano — a subgenre of South African house music — but infused with pop and R&B melodies and accented by elements of Afrobeats, was unlike anything else on pop ...