Across generations, across borders, and across genres, African women have not only contributed to the continent’s sound, they have defined it.From the golden era of Afro-jazz and soul to the current ...

The nonprofit founder, musician, and educator says Saturday’s symposium will cover old and new ground, including an appreciative look at guitar legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Dallas blues legend ...

Black women were instrumental in the early stages of hip-hop and continue to make history today. We’re looking at those who made their mark doing what they love. The success of hip-hop is rooted in ...

One modest Zanzibar door, literally a stone’s throw from our hotel resort, lets you step into a different ‘kind of magic’: a museum dedicated to the one and only Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), the first ...

A guitar used by David Gilmour on six of Pink Floyd’s albums has sold for a record $14.6m (£10.9m), making it the most expensive guitar ever sold, auction house Christie’s has said. Gilmour played the ...

The blues didn’t arrive from the US as something alien. It arrived as something curiously familiar. See how bands across Scandinavia have made the sound their own.

The Nazis secretly used blood from Jewish prisoners to keep their wounded alive in a practice that has stayed hidden for more than 80 years, according to a new book. Hitler’s henchmen received ...

He’s built one of the wildest, weirdest songbooks of modern times — from Seventies raunch to epic folk beauty to glam grandeur ...

Twenty-three people have been rescued by helicopter crews in Ontario, Canada, after the ice shelf they were standing on broke, sending the group floating into Lake Huron. Ontario Provincial Police ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Internationally acclaimed composer, conductor, scholar, cultural activist and film-maker, Shirley J Thompson will present the world premiere of her latest Heroines of Opera work, ...

I’m Phumzile Grace Nsabele. I’m a widow and a mother of two. I’m a model, an international queen with a master’s in business administration. I’m a motivational speaker and an author. I’m Mrs Global ...

THE self-styled queen and handmaiden of a bizarre African “tribe” were arrested by police after the birth of a baby. Officers swooped on Jean Gasho, 43, and Kaura Taylor, 21, from the “Kingdom of ...