Follow AllAfrica News: Music, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-music Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:12:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrx0jVwCdCndsfGo0LrnZNO [New Times] Rwandan artiste Bruce Melodie has touched down in the US where he will perform during the highly anticipated 'iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour' slated to kick off in Dallas on November 28, and stops on December 16 in Miami.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:55:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrx0jVwCdCndsfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrL6gr9z1OVp31d0VB8z-7c [Nile Post] International multi-award winning Ugandan contemporary /Soul/Jazz]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:02:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrL6gr9z1OVp31d0VB8z-7c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNoB_UI92zd4cIIAmcWJ0TmB [Premium Times] Chocolate City's trouble is a fallout of a recent judgement of a High Court in London.]]> Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:16:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNoB_UI92zd4cIIAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNptbz2jas_XuC1Ly282xAAw [Daily Maverick] The devastating fire in Joburg's Albert Street in August, which claimed the lives of 77 people, also had an impact on the city's vibrant entertainment scene. The blaze claimed the life of dancehall DJ and MC, Nkosinathi 'Snagga T' Masuku and his fiancée, Blessing Chihera Musonza.]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:54:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNptbz2jas_XuC1Ly282xAAw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNptbz2jas_XuFyOSYGFl6uu [New Times] Rwanda's music stars Norbert Rusanganwa, popularly known as Kenny Sol, and Benjamin Mugisha alias The Ben, will yet again share the stage during "The 2023 Rwanda Youth Convention" taking place in Canada on November 25-26.]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:39:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNptbz2jas_XuFyOSYGFl6uu https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNptbz2jas_XuASngkwrdsok [New Times] Kevin Kade, a fast-rising Rwandan artiste, is set to drop his first studio album dubbed 'Baho'.]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:39:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNptbz2jas_XuASngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrGKH7PeA2kBum6srrLMsqK [Afropop] As Thanksgiving is upon us, some may find time to squirrel away with a phone or laptop and escape into a world of music and imagination. Others may wish to share these with an excited, skeptical or, perhaps, battle-fatigued family. Whatever your holiday circumstance, we offer an extended set of 10 strong Afropop-related videos! (They're not all technically "new," but at least "recent.")]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:26:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrGKH7PeA2kBum6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrj8R-bcm_FXHMq2h3ehXEp [Afropop] Each year, come late October, there is a gathering of what could be described as a tribe - this year it was nearly 3000 people, from over 100 countries. There are no real rules to join this tribe, no initiations, no uniforms, and no secret handshakes to learn. The only requirement is a passion for and a desire to proliferate, what we are sometimes reluctant to call for lack of a better term, "world music." This year this gathering, its 23rd edition, called WOMEX, or officially, The Worldwide Music Expo,]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:46:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrj8R-bcm_FXHMq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNruDocbNPQiLjErtZyObPkc [Addis Standard] Addis Abeba - Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, and Sewasew Multimedia, Ethiopia's leading music and Entertainment Company, today announced that they have signed the first of its kind distribution agreement for the Ethiopian market.]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:40:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNruDocbNPQiLjErtZyObPkc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNo-7d9UmMDBFG0dX84dnP8Y [AIM] Maputo -- By John Hughes]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:11:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNo-7d9UmMDBFG0dX84dnP8Y https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNr3r0-6nVcVKHKSkciKEY1s [New Times] Rwandan musician and renowned journalist Innocent Nyarwaya, popularly known as Yago Pon Dat, is set to launch his debut album, 'Suwejo', after one year in the music industry.]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:39:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNr3r0-6nVcVKHKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNqwSXKL3MxRH1w3HFUzDTIP [New Times] Listening to his first release 'Plus Les Mots"Plus Les Mots', one might mistake him for an established French singer like Tayc or Dadju, but it's Pricekeys, a Canada-based Rwandan artiste who is producing a different wave of sounds than the usual.]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:57:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNqwSXKL3MxRH1w3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNr1Sck1vy1Att6jHbRcHw3s [Nile Post] Police and sister security agencies have heaped praise on local and international revellers who defied travel advisories from the British High Commission and the US embassy in Uganda to attend the just concluded Nyege Nyege festival in Jinja city.]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:10:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNr1Sck1vy1Att6jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNp5BpsFYy4iVixhxzpi7FpJ [Vanguard] Controversial Nigerian singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has been crowned as the Best New Artist at the 2023 African Entertainment Awards, USA (AEUSA).]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:02:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNp5BpsFYy4iVixhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrcFucNExpKceGrEXdXG_66 [Nile Post] A total of 5,122 consumers who attended the Uganda Waragi Nyege Nyege in Jinja City over the weekend completed Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL)'s 'Wrong Side of the Road' survey , a positive drinking questionnaire which is designed to help people better understand the consequences of drink driving.]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:50:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrcFucNExpKceGrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNpaznZkubuxuXtuT6pSmY81 [Afropop] Congo's Samba Mapangala and the Soukous Stars animated a high-spirited Afropop Dance Party at the legendary New York nighclub SOB's on Friday, Novemver 10th. The event was to honor of Afropop Worldwide's 35th anniversary and SOB's 40th. Samba brought a full-on soukous big band of ten U.S. based African musicians and dancers including Jaja Bashengezi on lead guitar, Ngouma Lokito on bass, Nkumu Katalay on congas and Freddy Nyembwe and Chekedar es Salam on backing vocals. Samba sang some of his mega hits]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:51:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNpaznZkubuxuXtuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrAPLQNd0c1Kem6srrLMsqK [Nile Post] The British and the American Embassies offer travel advisories to their nationals on attending large gatherings in Uganda due to what they saw as eminent security concerns.]]> Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:12:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNrAPLQNd0c1Kem6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNqcnoqCvsDY3Am0QkxGtqLL [Afropop] Each year when the world music expo, WOMEX, closes up shop in another European city, we get the stats. And the 23rd edition in A Coruña, Spain, was no exception. So here they are:]]> Fri, 10 Nov 2023 06:43:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNqcnoqCvsDY3Am0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNqcnoqCvsDY3KgzzHWHxDTV [The Conversation Africa] "How come we've never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?" This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his peers probably felt after watching the extraordinary documentary Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales.]]> Fri, 10 Nov 2023 06:35:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNqcnoqCvsDY3KgzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNpe6jS6IVa1lt3hDS9njgCr [Nile Post] The Deputy Inspector General of Police Geoffrey Katsigazi Tumusiime spent greater part of Wednesday in Jinja for a reconnaissance mission at Nyege Nyege and Royal Wedding venues.]]> Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:14:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/XMbhVHbafNpe6jS6IVa1lt3hDS9njgCr