African music African music Hip hop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread American influence. The first hip-hop group from Africa was Black Noise, a group from Cape Town, South Africa. They began as a graffiti and breakdance crew until they started emceeing around 1989. The government of South Africa's apartheid era tried to ban rap due to its part in the struggle for the freedom of all races. Later the government made hip-hop legal in 1993 by playing rap music on radio and rap videos on T.V. ...more on Wikipedia about "African hip hop"
Reggae is a kind of Jamaican popular music that has spread to much of the world, especially including Africa. There are many African reggae musicians with a wide fanbase both on the continent and abroad. Three well-known African reggae artists are Alpha Blondy, Majek Fashek and Lucky Dube. ...more on Wikipedia about "African reggae"
Afro pop or Afropop refers to popular African music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afro pop"
Afrobeat is a combination of American funk rhythms fused with African percussion and vocal styles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afrobeat"
Bembe is an African drumming party, most notably performed by the Yoruba tribe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bembe"
Bonga Kwenda, better known as Bonga, is a pop singer and songwriter from Angola. Bonga was born José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho in 1943 in the province of Bengo, and left Angola at age 23 to become an athlete, becoming the Angolan record holder for the 400 metre dash. He had already begun is singing career at age 15. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bonga (musician)"
In Shona music, a deze is a halved Calabash gourd in which an Mbira is placed in order to alplify its sound. It is typically round in shape and has bottle caps, shells or other objects strung around its perimeter which vibrate with the Mbira, causing a buzzing sound. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deze"
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The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble was formed shortly after percussionist Kahil El'Zabar graduated from the school of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in 1976. He teamed up with tenor saxophonist Edward Wilkerson, Jr. to play music that combined contemporary African American musical styles, like jazz, with more traditional African instrumentation and rhythms. The duo would frequently grow to a trio in these first years, adding musicians like saxophonist Light Henry Huff and Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre; through extensive touring in Europe and the United States, they began to build an international reputation. In 1988, they added trombonist and conga player Joseph Bowie, who was the leader of the jazz-funk group Defunkt. This trio configuration proved to be both long-living and successful, recording on a number of European record labels. 1993 brought their first recording on an American label, Dance With the Ancestors, which was recorded for Chameleon Records. In 1997, Wilkerson was replaced by Ernest "Khabeer" Dawkins, who was first featured on a recording made by the Ensemble in 1999, Freedom Jazz Dance. That album, which also featured Chicago jazz legend Fareed Haque, was released by the Delmark label and continued the Ensemble's tradition of music with a modern sensibility and an ancestral spirit. February 2002 found the group on a North American tour celebrating their 25th anniversary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ethnic Heritage Ensemble"
The hosho is a Zimbabwean musical instrument consisting of a maranka gourd with seeds (usually Hota) inside it or net of beads around it and which often accompanies Shona music, especially mbira music. It is a type of rattle. Another form of the hosho is made of a wild orange called a damba, tied together with sticks and filled with hota seeds or pebbles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hosho (instrument)"
Kakilambe or Kaki lambe (sometimes misspelt as "Kalilambe") is an African dance. It is a ritual dance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kakilambe"
Kizomba is one of most popular styles of dance and music in the lusophone African countries. Sung in Portuguese or Portuguese Creole, it is a genre of music with a Euro-centric romantic flow mixed with African rhythm sections. The kizomba dancing style is also very sensual. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kizomba"
This is a list of African musicians and musical groups. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of African musicians"
Malaika, which is Swahili for "angel", akin to the Arabic word for angels " Malaika", was a song composed by Fadhili William in 1960, and was originally recorded by 'The Jambo Boys'. It was later re-recorded at Equator Sound Studios (see Equator Records) by the British-born Kenyan music promoter Charles Worrod, who marketed the ballad to eventually becoming an internationally acclaimed song. The song went on to be popularised by international artists such as Helmut Lottie, Rocco Granata, Miriam Makeba, Harry Belafonte, and Boney M. ...more on Wikipedia about "Malaika"
Africa is a large and diverse continent, consisting of dozens of countries, hundreds of languages and thousands of races, tribes and ethnic groups. As such, there is little that can be said that applies to all the music of Africa, as there is no distinctly pan-African tradition of folk or classical music of any kind; the only shared form of musical expression is popular. Nevertheless, there are regional similarities between dissimilar groups, as well as popular trends known across the continent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music of Africa" My way is shortopedia African_music
A Tama (the "talking drum") is a drum whose pitch can be regulated to the extent that it is said the drum "talks". The player puts the tama under one shoulder and beats the tama with a stick. Tama player raises the pitch by tightening the strings and can produce highly informative sounds to convey complicated messages. Tama is used in playing Mbalax music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tama (musical instrument)"
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