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Want to learn some interesting music facts you may not have heard before? Here are four fun tidbits you can pull out at your next trivia night, or squirrel away as obscure knowledge. Ever wonder ...
After 17 years, Filipino fans were ready to sing and dance to Toto again. The crowd at the ... Arnel Pineda’s appearance to sing the closing song Africa was the perfect cherry atop the concert ...
For this month’s ‘Made in Africa’ column, we list the music from across the African diaspora we’re taking into the summer ...
My aunt, Madeleine Toto Nyomo ... to write a song about the churches of Kinshasa because there are too many of these corrupt, false pastors. You have to denounce that." So I wrote this song.
Following their recent electrifying performance alongside Doja Cat at The Coachella Music and Arts Festival in the US last month, South African vocal sensation, The Joy recently released a vibrant ...
Rather, its main aim is to create quality and nuanced music. Hence, paying credit to the original authors of storied songs is seemingly not a top priority. That being so, here are three iconic ...
In honor of Billboard Africa launching, here's a look back at some of the historic firsts African artists have accomplished.
The country star will release her first album of songs she co-wrote in July Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her ...
Another winning Swedish songwriter returning is Linnea Deb. She wrote Sweden’s winning song Heroes in 2015. This time she has co-written Hallucination for Denmark. Alongside the returning Swedes ...
No African writer has as many major, lasting creative achievements in such a wide range of genres as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.