The 1982 track was the band's only No. 1 hit — but has been widely criticized for its confusing lyrics It was a No. 1 hit — and it’s notoriously a little odd. Toto’s Steve Lukather has some mixed ...

A Moroccan woman impressed South Africans after singing an Amapiano hit word for word, highlighting how local music continues to travel globally.

Nomcebo Zikode, the South African singer of the pandemic hit “Jerusalema” that inspired a global dance challenge, wrote the chorus while battling her own depression. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from ...

Back when MTV Base Africa was launched in 2005, there wasn’t a clear indication of where African music was headed. The platform was introduced to help grow the African music scene and help it find its ...

The hugely popular music video is a testimony to its widespread acclaim. It is another notch in Tanzanian pop star Diamond Platnumz’s belt as an alchemist of international crossover hits. In ...

Just around 10 million people speak isiZulu, a language out of South Africa. So how did a song in the little-known dialect become a hit with billions of people around the world? The song in question ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — An old anti-apartheid song that was a call for Black people to stand up against oppression and has now been decried by Elon Musk and others as promoting the killing of whites ...