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Accra, Ghana ndash; Ghanaian artist Rk Jay rsquo;son, born Richard King Adavor in Tarkwa Nsuaem, is steadily making his mark in the country rsquo;s music industry .

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On a rainy Thursday night in July, a flood of people crowd the bar on the ground floor at Delmar. It’s after midnight and concertgoers have migrated from the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre to the ...

Almost 30 years after he died, the Nigerian will posthumously receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Note: This article was originally published in April 2005. It was created at a time when African music was on the cusp of becoming an increasingly large part of the Western pop culture landscape.

But Fela Kuti and his music were a revelation to the seasoned veteran. "It was like lightning," he says. "I thought, 'Why haven’t I heard this before? How did this escape me?!'" Afrobeat has elements ...

Ebo Taylor became one of Ghana’s major prolific musicians in the 1950s and ‘60s, making his signature Ghanaian highlife that influenced the father of afrobeat, Fela Kuti. As highlife and afrobeat ...