On December 19, the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was announced. The honor goes to Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997. He joins an ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. They say that music is an international language and no matter where you’re from you ...

Popularly known by his stage name as Joe Chameleon or Jose Chameleone, Joseph Mayanjawas is a popular reggae musician from Uganda born in 1979 . Singing mostly in Luganda, English and Swahili, Jose ...