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The AfroBeat Festival will return to New Jersey’s largest city with music, dance, food, fashion and more. It’s free and family friendly.
This weekend is packed with back-to-back vibrant cultural activities, including AfroBeat Fest and Newark Pride Fest.
Afrobeat artist CKay opens up about the exciting prospect of collaborating with global superstar Drake. He shares what such a ...
It may be wishful thinking, but if these tuff times really are just ephemeral, we’ll all owe Kokoroko a heck of a debt of ...
Being in the crowd means feeling the music — dancing, singing, and soaking in every moment. But backstage? That’s where the ...
Get the complete lyrics of Essence by Wizkid, Tems with 'you don't need no other body' lyrics in it. Feel the blend of ...
APHRODESIA07_268_KW.JPG On Friday night 12/22/07 in San Francisco, Ca Aphrodesia, an upcoming San Francisco Afrobeat band including (L to R) Liz Larson (trombone), Henry Hung (trumpet) Sylvain ...
Afrobeat Charles de Ledesma tells us about Afrobeat, the latest music trend in dance clubs in London. Afrobeat originated in Lagos, Nigeria in the late 1960s. It borrows heavily from American jazz ...
Afrobeat has elements of many different types of music that had spoken to him through the years, from jazz, funk and soul to traditional African music. "But it all just came together with the ...
People are drawn to Afrobeat music for two reasons, says Saxophone player Leah Concialdi of the band ATOMGA: They are familiar with the genre’s founder Fela Kuti or enjoy its layered, energetic ...