HYBE launches its African music strategy with Tyla as the first artist supported under a new global management partnership.

Tyla’s co-managers Brandon Hixon and Colin Gayle partner with K-pop giant HYBE for management and expansion into Africa as ...

The 31st annual South African Music Awards crowned the crème de la crème of the music industry at the Gallagher Convention ...

WAVVI will offer streaming distribution, AI-powered advertising campaigns, performance and auience analytics and audio mixing ...

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At 2 p.m. Feb. 3, I met John Fleming, his sister, and Ruby Miller, at the American Museum of Science and Energy. It was my privilege to provide a tour to acquaint our speaker for the evening with ...

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. ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

On a chilly October night, the dimly lit lounge of Rock Steady — a popular Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Midtown — is notably empty. Staffers are preparing for what’s supposed to be a busy night ahead.

T he explosion of Afrobeats has been one of the biggest stories in the music industry over the past five years, with acts like Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, and Tems becoming global superstars. As ...

His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.