Do you mind if I just stay in my robe?” Tyla asks, her slippers already on the floor. The 23-year-old South African pop star ...

South Africa is celebrating 30 years since apartheid ended and Nelson Mandela became the nation’s first Black president. In the U.S., a South African musical group is spreading Mandela’s ...

The latter is a newer sound, tracing back to South Africa’s underground house scene in the mid-2010s. Amapiano is known for its hypnotic jazz-house soundscape.

Legendary DJ Oskido announces star-studded line-up for his inaugural ‘Big Day Out’ festival, featuring South Africa's kwaito pioneers and house music royalty.

Indeed, each nomination in the category was an English-language track and was mainly Afrobeats or amapiano, the South African House genre that’s grown increasingly popular over the past several ...

The singer won the first-ever Grammy for African music performance for her sultry, gorgeously sung single “Water." Her debut, self-titled album released in March, could be a strong candidate to ...

The story behind the “Getting Late” music video is inspiring: You wrote on Instagram that you had “set out wanting to make the best video South Africa has ever seen” and filmed a little ...

This is one of my favorite South African songs of all time. I have never been able to define what jazz is, so this may not even be “jazz,” but here we are. What this is, is Malombo music.

The needless death of South African jazz trumpeter and flautist Mongezi Feza in 1975 (in London, from untreated pneumonia) moved his friends to express their grief and anger in the studio.

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her ...

Set within the Nomadsland area of the festival grounds, the Ubuntu stage was designed to showcase a fresh blend of established and emerging African DJs representing subgenres like Afro-house ...