Category: Music
Beyoncé Breaks Grammy Record For Most Wins Ever
Beyoncé on Sunday broke the record for the most Grammy wins of any artist, scoring her 32nd prize ever and fourth of the night to resounding applause. She clinched the title by winning the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for her smash “Renaissance,” thus surpassing the late classical conductor Georg Solti, who had 31…
Tems wins Grammy Award
Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi popularly known Tems has set a new record for Nigerian music at the 65th edition of the prestigious Grammy Awards 2023. She bagged her first Grammy award in the 2023 ‘Best Melodic Rap Performance’ category for her vocal and writing contribution to the smashing hit ‘Wait For U’ by Future featuring…
Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ Returns to Streaming Services
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dr. Dre’s groundbreaking album “The Chronic,” the album will be re-released by its original distributor, Interscope Records, and will return to all major streaming services. The re-release of the acclaimed work will be accompanied by a special chronic merch collection. The album was removed from streaming services after Snoop Dogg acquired the catalog…
AfroReggae Sensation Kingral Set To Paint Valentine Red With New Single; “Sinner Man”
Like a burning star, Fusion is the magic at the heart of the Nigerian music reactor. From genres like Afrobeat, Afropop, R&B, Reggae, dancehall, hip-hop, folk music, EDM, and Amapiano, Atoms of multiple music styles are constantly being fused by the gravity of absolute ingenuity of geniuses like Kingral to birth chain reactions of sonic…
RISING ARTIST ZAIY OFFICIALLY UNVEILS HIS ‘ZAIY’S INTRO’ EP
Akinwole Olatunji Isaiah, professionally known as Zaiy, is a Nigerian Afropop singer and songwriter from Ogun State. His music is strongly influenced by artists such as Koffee, Post Malone, XXX Tentacion, Beautiful Nubia, Billie Eilish, and Baba 70, as well as all Afrobeat musicians who are promoting their culture around the world. Zaiy has been…
Tems makes history with Oscar nomination
The nomination list for the 2023 Oscar awards has been released and Nigerian international sensation Temilade ‘Tems’ Openiyi has made history by becoming the first Nigerian artist to earn an Oscar nomination. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” received five nominations, one of which was for “Lift Me Up,” the lead single from the film’s soundtrack. The song…
Dj Damifresh Emerges 1st Runner Up At Afrochella X Tunecore Rising Dj Competition
Shortly, after a successful annual event hosted by DJ Damifresh in October 2022 at The Corner Lekki Phase 1 Lagos (The Damifresh Experience Highlight), he competed in a competition put together by Afrofuture (fka Afrochella) & Tunecore. This competition saw DJ’s from across Africa compete, as all contestants were asked to put together a 15-minute…
AFROBEATS SUPERSTAR; ADÉOLA BRINGS “THE SCIENCE OF AFROBEATS” WITH HIS DEBUT ALBUM; “AFROCOLOGY”
It’s the end 2022 and a new acoustic dimension championed by a new generation of sonic wizKid’s has exploded on the third planet from the sun like a massive supernova. From the streets of Lagos to neighborhoods in Tema, communes in Soweto, boroughs in the UK and indeed cities all across the world – Afrobeats…
Afrobeats Sensation Ohla Hits The Charts With Debut EP ‘Afro-Icon’
Waves after waves, the music industry is experiencing a Tsunami of sounds like never before. Amongst those new school cresting the sonic waves of Afrobeats is fast-rising singer, OHLA. Born Bukola Ireti Holo, OHLA’s debut EP, a seven-track specially curated EP titled “Afro-Icon” is an inspirational, melodic, all-round Afrobeats sound, which landed on the charts…
YXNG DC RELEASES MONEY
The Afro-trap & Hip-Hop artist, Caleb dents Samuel releases a delightful slapper produced by the prolific fingers of Niphkeys, a fusion of Afropop and trap talking about the never-ending search for steady paycheck, the first track off his impending debut, a 7 track EP “The Odd” which features 1dabaton and a couple of other exciting artist on…