Released in a span of three months, the new albums by Ayra Starr, Tems and Tyla are not merely career-making for the artists, but ground-shifting... When the emergent Nigerian singer Ayra Starr ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws ...

I have the pleasure of living in the big, busy, diverse, and very diasporic city of Atlanta, where the summertime lituations are about to get very real. There are a ton of great DJs in town spinning ...

"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 seems even smaller than her 5-foot-3-inch frame as she curls into the ...

Ayra Starr’s new album, The Year I Turned 21 (released May 30), is the latest landmark in an ongoing Afropop evolution. It is among the sleekest records the genre has ever produced, unbelievably ...

Ayra Starr's second album, The Year I Turned 21, is a global-minded symphony of influences, and part of a recent wave of young women charting their own course for African pop. Ayra Starr’s new album, ...