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- Afrobeat is a genre of music that originated in Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s. It is a fusion of West African music, jazz, funk, and soul. The genre is characterized by its complex rhythms, use of horns, and political lyrics.
Mar 12, 2020 · Afrobeats (not to be confused with Afrobeat, a blend of jazz and funk popularised by Nigerian musician Fela Kuti in the 1970s) is an umbrella term for contemporary pop music from West Africa,...
- Florian Obkircher
Jan 12, 2022 · Nigeria is the bastion of Afrobeats, producing most of the stars who have penetrated the West in recent years. Industry insiders point to the country’s population of more than 206 million ...
Mar 23, 2022 · The Rise of Afrobeats: From West Africa to The Diaspora 1950-2010. Reflecting on how African music crossed over into wider pop culture.
Mar 8, 2023 · The host of A-list acts from Africa and the west featured multiple Grammy award winners in Erykah Badu, T-Pain, Ghanaian legend Sarkodie and east London Afroswing collective NSG, to name a few.
- The Diaspora
- Dance Videos
- Collaborations
- Radio Play
- Global Acceptance
Pop musicians from other parts of the continent have been making music under the Afrobeats banner, but it is the Nigerians Wizkid, Davido and Burna Boy who have each sold out The O2 arena in London or the Accor Arena in Paris. Undoubtedly, Nigerian artists are the trailblazers of the Afrobeats movement. Nigeria’s over 200 million-strong population ...
Related to this is the culture of dance videos – challenges and general routines – orchestrated by Afrobeats artistes across social media platforms that have contributed greatly to the unprecedented global rise of Afrobeats. The explosion of these dance videos on TikTok, for example, demonstrates that language is no barrier to the acceptance and po...
The collaborations by Afrobeats artistes with the biggest music stars in the world have made for further global exposure. For The Lion King: The Gift (2019), US star Beyoncé did the unprecedented by enlisting the services of numerous Afrobeats stars, including Wizkid and Burna Boy. Her Brown Skin Girl featuring Wizkid won Best Music Video at the 20...
The category of Best African Act was introduced at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2005 while the Best International Act: Africa premiered at the 2011 edition of the BET Awards. These were landmarks pointing to an African pop music unable to be confined within Africa anymore. They also represented an improved opportunity for high profile exposure. I...
Musicians typically desire to have a global reach. The importance of America as the world’s entertainment capital guarantees that for the average artist, acceptance in America is tantamount to global acceptance. The Grammy Awards represents the ultimate recognition in music. The categories of Best Global Music Album and Best Global Music Performanc...
Aug 1, 2023 · He pioneered the genre by blending West African highlife music with American jazz and funk, resulting in a distinctive sound that conveyed powerful social and political messages.
Afrobeats, not to be confused with afrobeat or afroswing, is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora [1] [2] that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s. Afrobeats is less of a style per se, and more of a descriptor for the fusion of sounds flowing majorly out of Nigeria.
