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The music industry has been built to an extent off the labor of Black artists and executives yet racism and discrimination are still prevalent. Several black industry professionals have complained about extortion of blacks, sexualizing of black females, and placing of tags. The Black Lives in Music (BLIM) Survey, the largest ever survey of data […]
4 years ago
While a good number of artists, musicians especially, rebranded during the lockdown, others like Stephanie Weaver, rediscovered their love for music. On her five-track debut EP, Waves, the budding singer pulled inspiration afforded to her by isolation and made her passion the center of this life-affirming project. Waves, a title bereft of fantasies but hinged […]
4 years ago
With social media, virality these days is guaranteed for anyone wielding the right materials to build character and status prevalent content. Music is advantageous when it comes to virality and in recent years, musicians have not failed to utilize their hit-making abilities. Recently, Tiwa Savage was able to achieve this with Somebody’s Son, a track […]
4 years ago
Identifiable by its soulful undertones, swing and syncopation, improvisation, bent notes, and distinctive voices, soulful Jazz or Jazz itself has laid the foundation for what has gone on to become Ethio- Jazz. Ethio-Jazz adds more eerie and ancient-sounding tones and is typical of traditional Ethiopian music. The man who started this genre of music that plays from the […]
4 years ago
Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrasaq Gurnah has become the second ‘Black African’ writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature following in the footsteps of Wole Soyinka in 1986. The Nobel Prize has been awarded 118 times since 1901 and another Black African emerging as the winner of this prestigious award after 35 years, comes as a […]
4 years ago
Ladies and gentlemen, lunch is served! Showmax has dropped the official trailer for its first comedy-drama series in West Africa, Ghana Jollof, which premieres on the African streaming service on Friday, 22 October 2021. Earlier in the year, Showmax broke first-day streaming records in Nigeria with I am LAYCON, a reality show based on Big […]
4 years ago
Of the series of trends that ruled west African music industries this year, the Amapiano sound, accompanied by all of its variations and the chance of social media virality through apps like Tik Tok and Triller, is top on the list of those sought after by any musician with a dollar and a dream. For […]
4 years ago
Inspired by Davido’s epochal influence in the Music industry along with a strong background in inspiring and realising potential in rising talents – and Martell’s origin of redefining conventions. Martell, the oldest of the great cognac houses is proud to announce the launch of its brand-new campaign; Be The Standout Swift, starring singer-songwriter and record producer, […]
5 years ago
