Mr. Mude was one of the greatest mbira singers, a person who was profoundly inspired by the spirits in his singing to the extent that he…

Rattletree Marimba is a Zimbabwean style marimba band based in Austin, Texas. They play high-energy dance and trance music that is guaranteed to…

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is one of the few women playing the male-dominated mbira-based music of the Shona people. Born in the late 1940s, Chiweshe…

Stella Chiweshe (also Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe, b. Mujumi Village, Mhondoro, Zimbabwe,…

Batanai means "people lets get together". Batanai are a six strong group featuring a groundbreaking pan-African line-up mixing the buzzing and…

Once referred to as the Bob Dylan of Zimbabwe, a social activist and founder of chimurenga music, Thomas Tafirenyika "Mukayana" Mapfumo is also…

Group Inerane is the now sound of the Tuareg Guitar Revolution sweeping across the Sahara Desert and inspired by the rebel musicians that…

A tribal leader's son from the Ga people of Ghana, Addy moved to the United States in his youth and eventually settled in Portland, Oregon. He has…

Djeli Moussa Diawara (also known as Jali Musa Jawara) is born in a family of Guinean griots, hereditary caste of musicians. His father was a…

The Missa Luba is a version of the Latin Mass based on traditional Congolese songs. It was arranged by Father Guido Haazen, a Franciscan Friar…

D'Gary (Ernest Randrianasolo born October 22, 1961 Antananarivo, Madagascar) is a Madagascan musician of Bara ethnicity. His primary instrument is…

Etoile De Dakar was a pop/rock/dance band active in Senegal from the late-1970s to the mid-1980s, led by vocalists Youssou N'Dour and El Hadji…

The Bhundu Boys are a Zimbabwean band that played a mixture of chimurenga music with American rock and roll, disco and pop influences. Their style…

Led by singing drummer Marshall Munhumumwe, The Four Brothers came together in 1977 out of the ashes of the Great Sounds, and eventually became…