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In its inaugural year, the African music performance category for the 66th Grammy Awards is stacked with some of the continent’s biggest stars of the moment: Asake and Olamide (for “Amapiano ...
The Billboard Year-End U.S. Afrobeats Songs of 2024 ranks the best-performing Afrobeats songs in the United States. Published by Billboard magazine on December 13, 2024, it showcase the aggregated metrics compiled by Luminate from October 28, 2023, through October 19, 2024.
The 25th edition of the Ghana Music Awards, sponsored for the first time by Telecel Ghana, was held on the 1st and 2nd days of June, 2024 at the Grand Arena of the Accra International Conference Centre in Accra to recognize the works of artists in the year under review.
Afrobeats: The Backstory is a documentary series that delves into the rise and global influence of Afrobeats, a genre of music that originated in Nigeria.Directed by Nigerian filmmaker Ayo Shonaiya, the series premiered on Netflix on 29 June 2022, offering an in-depth look at the cultural, political, and social landscape that shaped the Afrobeats sound, as well as its growth.
Benjamin Mensah Garzy, professionally known as Mix Master Garzy, is a Ghanaian record producer, [1] sound engineer, disc jockey and singer. [2]His major productions include "Pull Up" by Stonebwoy, [3] "My Baby" by Stay Jay ft. R2Bees, "Boom boom tag" by Mista Silva, GH UK based "Enemies" by Jupitar featuring Sarkodie in 2014, [4] "Iskoki" by Samini, [5] "KoKo Sakora" by Dr Cryme featuring ...
Afrobeats, not to be confused with Afrobeat or Afroswing, is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora [1] [2] that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s. Afrobeats is less of a style per se, and more of a descriptor for the fusion of sounds flowing out of Nigeria and Ghana.
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk [3] [4]) is a West African music genre, fusing influences from Yoruba music [5] [6] and Ghanaian music (such as highlife), [7] with ...
In 2020, the planned second editions of both Afro Nation Portugal [15] and Afro Nation Ghana were postponed to 1 July 2022, [16] and 29 December 2022, [17] due to COVID-19. On 26 September 2021, Afro Nation and Official Charts Company founded the official weekly UK Afrobeats Chart Show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, [18] with host Eddie Kadi. [19]