“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Queen Rima (born Born Marie Tolno) is considered one of the pioneers of dancehall in her native Guinea Conakry, a style that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s in Jamaica before taking the world by storm.

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. DAKAR, May 22 (Reuters) - Musician Mory ...

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