Africa is really coming up,one of my favorite musician called FUSE ODG.. Most of you would know him as TINA (This is new Africa).
some of the songs people should list to are:
1.dangerous love ft.sean paul
2.Antenna ft.wyclef jean
3.Azonto
They will not disappoint and you will see that this is the new Africa.

N.M.K

LADY JAYDEE: Tanzanian queen of R&B.

Judith Daines Wambura Mbibo aka Lady Jaydee aka "Binti Machozi" (owner of Machozi Band) started singing in church at the age of 7 and in the mid 1990s she was a member of the Afro Reign group. It was not until 2001 when she released her first solo album titled “Machozi” which crowned her Tanzanian Best Female Artist in 2001. She has continued winning numerous awards in and out of Tanzania including the most recent awards in South Africa during the Channel O Video Music Awards Best. She has  recorded with a number of artists including Samba Mapangala (Congo), Chameleone (Uganda), Mad Ice (Uganda / Tanzania), Matonya (Tanzania) and Mina Nawe (South Africa) amongst others. Some of her hit songs include : Yahaya, Joto Hasira featuring Professor Jay and Wangu featuring Mr.Blue.

      Leticia Bandiho Chausi.

Yvonne Chaka Chaka: Mgombothi

Yvonne Chaka Chaka is one of South Africa’s best-loved daughters. An acclaimed singer, she has been an integral part of the country’s music industry for more than 25 years.
Born into a humble Soweto family in 1965 as Yvonne Machaka, she broke onto the local music scene when just a teen with the disco-inspired hit, I'm in Love with a DJ. This radical new sound was unlike anything audiences had heard before and quickly garnered her a following among South Africa’s urban youth. Her debut album of the same name went on to sell 35 000 copies, catapulting her into the limelight.
What followed was a string of hits that successfully merged mbaqanga (a rhythmical style with Zulu roots) influences with the new pop sounds, effectively positioning Chaka Chaka at the forefront of the so-called ‘bubblegum’ music genre both at home and throughout Africa.
By the late 80s Yvonne was South Africa’s hottest musical export, having toured Africa extensively and playing to sell-out stadium concerts in many countries. Throughout the 90s she continued to delight African audiences, her style evolving to reflect more Afro-traditional musical influences and her lyrics becoming increasingly personal.
Chaka Chaka’s dedication to and relationship with Africa earned her the title ‘Princess of Africa’. Among those who fondly refer to the star by this name is Nelson Mandela, who once said her music helped sustain him and others while imprisoned on Robben Island.
In fact, as a performer, Yvonne Chaka Chaka is no stranger to entertaining luminaries, having performed for Queen Elizabeth, ex-United States President Bill Clinton and several African heads of state. She has shared the stage with Bono, Angelique Kidjo, Annie Lennox, Youssou N'Dour and Queen.
In more recent years she enjoyed stints as a record producer, radio and TV presenter, talkshow host, actress and businesswoman. She has a keen interest in humanitarian work and is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations’ Roll Back Malaria Partnership.
Yvonne Chaka Chaka has received numerous music awards throughout her career. In 2012 she was honoured for her humanitarian work when she received the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award for artists who improve the world through their work. She was the first ever woman to receive the award.

courtesy of: http://www.southafrica.net/za/en/articles/entry/article-yvonne-chaka-chaka

Collins Kimani

SADE:SMOOTH OPERATOR

HERE SHE IS


I want to marry herBut iam just 20 and she is 52...she would probably have me sent to prison over it!
Ok i want to marry her daughter!She is 28 years old too!okay i give up!But she is just too pretty to ignore and yes she is so Nigerian.

Maybe you hadn't known her because of the low profile she likes to keep despite the consntant knocks on her door compelling her to be compared with Beyonce or get to do a collabo with Drake ahaha which i think will totally work magic.

The Nigerian Songstress is despicable in whatever she does with her music.Sade is basically the name of her band where she is the lead singer and what they focus on is classical music which never comes of age.

Right Here

The videos of her songs generally speak of her age which the music never speaks of though.Her mellow voice and the simplicity of the video plus the compliment the band with cowboys makes the music travel a million years ahead of where it should be.

Listen to most of the classical music radio stations and television stations at present and you would realize that she rules the charts and playlists around.

Her music has won the hearts of many including the Grammys where she had won best band of the year.
What a better way to speak of what we Africans can do musically other than  follow in Sade's footsteps!



By Elijah Charles Kiage

Diamond Plutinumz: Number one: Good voice

I know what you are already thinking after reading that headline: 'The boring Bongo Music that gets winning artists crying loudly about how much they love their lovers blah blah blah!!!'
You will be wrong if you imagined that Number one will fall into that category.

Diamond has done what our fellow Tanzanian brothers may want to call 'Bongo Fuishon bana!'He has literally started pro-founded and propounded a new era in Contemporary Bongo Flava music with a touch of punk pop that we have not been used to in the recent years and especiallly not from Tanzania.

I have been personally a great sucker at Listening let alone dancing to Bongo music but the introduction beats to the song will make anyone rise up to the occasion.Talk of a well cooked production!

HAIL MR. DIAMOND!!!!

 When listening to this song,you can not avoid  to notice the way this man focuses on the delivery of the beautiful poetry that we Africans are known for.He lambasts(forgive my big words and pardon my honest excitement  for this review )his verses with an acute performance from the flashy setting and the lively not to say exquisite performers who back up the song.

It has been time coming before we witnessed Tanzanians whose humility and satisfaction for little or simply satisfying so to speak rose up to the occasion and showed us that they can as well embrace
 bounty and well this man doesn't hide a thing from his pocket in this masterpiece of a poem shouting out loud how we Africans have also got to the map through our music.

The highly anticipated African Muzik Magazine Awards held at the prestigious Eisemann Center with a

galaxy

of African stars gracing the city of Dallas. The biggest African Muzik Awards in Diaspora had the big African Stars like Flavour, Diamond Platnumz , Togar Howard , Stanley Enow, Wyre, Alaine, Khuli Chana, the African King of Pop and International superstar

T-pain

dazzle on the stage with electrifying performances.
This night however turned out to be about this Man Diamond who scooped most of the words surplus to being crowned as the best East African musician  just to speak of a few of the accolades that swaung his way at the awards .

This is just more than prove that we Africans are here to fly and that this Man Diamond,he is just starting!!!

What a good voice!

Diamond has a very good voice that captures even the inattentive person. Wah! he is really gifted. I believe he has not done some panel beating on the voice but he has it naturally from God.

Edwin Wachie 

Mariam Makeba Song: Mbube (Lion).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2gMLCLSZ9w

I can't control myself when I hear this song.But I have nothing to do with Africa... Nor me not my ancestors...I'm going insane when I hear African songs - I start dancing even if I'm sitting in the office or lying in a bed.. I close my eyes and my body starts moving itself...  Am I crazy...? What is happening to me...?

 This are exact words of my British Friend who over heard me listen to this song in my car and he went crazy and openned up about what Makeba makes her feel whenever he wise mouth opens up.

Miriam Makeba, also known as "Mama Africa," was a popular South-African singer who introduced Xhosa and Zulu songs to Western audiences. She is best known for the songs "Pata Pata," "The Click Song" and "Malaika."

Miriam Makeba was born in South Africa in 1932. Her singing appearance in the documentary film Come Back, Africa (1959) attracted the interest of Harry Belafonte. With his help, Makeba settled in the United States, where she embarked on a successful singing and recording career. In 1965, she and Belafonte won a Grammy Award for best folk recording. She received renewed attention in the mid-1980s, after she met Paul Simon and joined Simon's history-making Graceland tour,her singing career rose up till she met her death in the year 2008.May God Rest Her Soul in Eternal Peace but her music never rests neverthless.

MAMA AFRICA

In 1962, Makeba performed at the birthday celebration of President John F. Kennedy. In 1965, she and Belafonte released the album An Evening with Belafonte & Makeba, which includes two duos by the musicians: "Train Song" and "Cannon." The album earned Makeba and Belafonte a Grammy Award for best folk recording in 1966.

Sorry for me going on and on about the life of this woman who i adore passionately though who activism but what i want you not to forget his her creativity to speak to you instead of her singing.
Her chosen genre  of afro lounge and soul music serenades her vocals well and drives all her music to desirability which is no wonder even the best movies around keep using her music to date.

The likes of Makeba are the reason why most of Africans can even dream of singing to be heard by other audiences leave alone the inspiration to talk about issues while entreratining.


  

  

We are Africa Rise-up. And we shall be taking you through African Music. Music in Africa, what African Music is, how, and what one feels when they listen to African Music, and finally the origin of African Music. Of-course, we are obliged to define our African Music is a whole. Firstly, Music is sounds put together in a progressive successive manner, and of-course in a sensible manner having its active listener enjoy, and have a preference to its major, and sub-genres.
African Music is Music made in Africa for Africans, and also for both the invited and uninvited ears .

We Are Africa!!!!

Take note that we shall expand on this 'shallow' definition of African Music by giving meaning to the African Music by the pictorials we shall post, and the well thought messages posted in text explaining what African Music is. We believe that African Music has been stereo-typed, by this we mean that some people think of African Music as what is nowadays, while some people think of African Music as what it used to be. Don't you think the best way to think of African Music as both what it was, and what it is right now, well change is hard to accept, but it is what it is, and one who prefers what African Music as what it was will tend to have interest in viewing African Communities perform their Music incorporated of course by their own distinctive dances. For example: the Maasai community based in Eastern Africa, specifically Kenya, and Tanzania who have fascinated many across the world as to how they perform their music with high jumping. 
                                                                                                              By Jean Pierre Fayemi  .