Zay B, a renowned Bongo music pioneer, passed away on May 31 in Dar es Salaam, and details of her last moments have emerged The artiste who, among artistes who shaped the Bongo music scene, was known ...

Tanzanian Bongo Hip Hop legend Zainab Lupangile, popularly known as Zay B, has died on the morning of May 31, 2026, following a short illness. The pioneering rapper, celebrated for helping shape ...

STAA wa Bongo Fleva kutoka WCB Wasafi, Diamond Platnumz hadi sasa ameachia Extended Playlist (EP) moja tu, 'First of All' (2022) ikiwa na nyimbo 10 ambazo kwa jumla zina urefu wa dakika 33.

The prospect of two left-of-center creative giants like Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart releasing an album together would have been jaw-dropping for adventurous music fans in 1975. For these two old ...

Two iconic decades – the Nineties and the Noughties – will be blended in one crazy night of music, dance and bingo.

Not for nothing, I do say [if] you take your eyes off me for two seconds, you miss a lot,” quipped jaunty crooner Durand Bernarr. He didn’t become this multifaceted artist and walking meme by ...

HEARING a clean sound of alto saxophone flavouring popular hits of Tanzania’s Bongo Flava, has become unusually common ...

Scrolling through Twitter is like wading through a steaming pool of hot trash. But among the depressing stories, exhausting criticism, and increasingly aggressive interactions between people who don't ...

She reflects on never having learned to play with a pick, using her late drummer’s kit to keep his vibe, her son’s influence ...

These stories of family bonds capture traditional music that’s equal parts rhythmic, melodic and harmonic, and rarely heard outside Indigenous communities Folk song collecting by women has an ...

Algerian singer Souad Massi heads this month's Transglobal World Music Charts with her latest album, Zagate, on her own label. She is regarded as one of the great North African voices and is known for ...