Founding member of the Soweto Gospel Choir, Shimmy Jiyane, talks with Bryan Crump ahead of the choir's Auckland Arts Festival ...

South African gospel artists are making history on streaming platforms, with Nontokozo Mkhize's debut album matching national ...

Central Cee has become the joint most-decorated rapper in Mobo Awards history after winning best male act at the 2025 event. The 26-year-old is now tied with Stormzy on seven awards, after winning the ...

Ahead of his Sunday performance, Matt B talked with Block Club about how Black identity and his upbringing inspires his music ...

The first time I went to a mostly African American church service, I was blown away by the music. One word came to mind – Motown. I felt the same beat, the same spirit of listening to groups and ...

From Grammy winners to yoga teachers, the ancient art of sacred Hindu music is appealing to masses young and old across the ...

Central Cee is now tied as the most-decorated rapper in Mobo Awards history after winning best male act at the 2025 event.

Artists including Central Cee, Jorja Smith and Ghetts are up for the top honours at the awards celebrating black music.

The Congolese community is so close-knit that the locals call the area where they live in the dusty suburbs 'Little Kinshasa'. It doesn't matter that most Kinyarwanda speakers live in the eastern ...

Nigeria’s electronic dance music (EDM) scene is bustling with sub-genre inventors and pioneers like 26-year-old beatsmith DJ Khalipha who created the Mara genre, although now renamed Street House.

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.

Prog rocker, post-punk modernist, 1980s pop sensation… Even at 75. the former Genesis frontman remains as compelling and confounding as ever ...