CHICO — When Lansana Kouyaté taps out a rhythm on his balafon, he not only pays the bills but keeps his 800-year family history and tradition from Guinea alive and vibrant. Kouyaté started playing the ...

If you’re a music maker then you can’t fail to have grasped the concept of compression and, more than likely, thanked your lucky stars that it was there to help. Whether it's evening out your iffy ...

To mark its first birthday, the blog African Music Treasures about African music rarities of the Voice of America music archive, features some of the more famous recordings in their collection of ...

“Music has charms to soothe the savage beast” is a line from a seventeenth century play with so much truth to it, it has been remembered long after everything else about play and playwright has passed ...

DAKAR (Reuters) – Musician Mory Kante, who helped win African music a global following, has died in the capital of his homeland Guinea at the age of 70, his agent said on Friday. Kante’s long-running ...

Spotify prepares to launch its own lyric translation tool, which the company has reportedly been testing for years. Locked in ...