Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton, Jay-Z‘s close friend and longtime sound engineer, recently visited South Africa to launch the Young Guru SAE Scholarship, a collaborative effort with Cape Town’s School of Audio Engineering. [...]
Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton, Jay-Z‘s close friend and longtime sound engineer, recently visited South Africa to launch the Young Guru SAE Scholarship, a collaborative effort with Cape Town’s School of Audio Engineering. [...]
No stranger to huge, sold-out venues, J. Cole made his first appearance in South Africa performing for the excited, but slightly smaller, crowd before the launch of TV show Big Brother StarGame, the country’s version of Celebrity Big Brother. Taking in everything the country has to offer, Cole not only put on a performance but [...]
Gearing up to release his long-awaited project entitled I Love You, Jadakiss took a trip to the motherland South Africa for an Aid Benefit concert, during which the raspy voiced emcee had the opportunity to meet the Swaziland Royal Family. The highly respected New York emcee dropped this quick trailer via his online domain as [...]
An opera about the life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela will premiere in Pretoria, South Africa this April 28th. The opera will feature a 60-piece orchestra performing western and traditional African music, while the lyrics will combine both the English and Xhosa languages. It is believed to [...]
Today World Cup fever is getting underway as the first game between Mexico and host country South Africa kicks off in Johannesburg. Amongst the dazzling opening ceremonies was a huge opening concert that was multi-cast on web and worldwide last night. Check out footage of Alicia Keys and K’Naan rocking the South African crowd in [...]
The lovely Kevin from Cannonball PR just sent me a link to the official video for this very creditable cover of Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Move On Up’ by Benin Republic native Angelique Kidjo. She’s got a couple of superstar friends to help her out plus the dancers from Broadway musical ‘FELA!’ about the infamous Nigerian Afro-beat [...]
Friday evening was the opening night at London’s Southbank Centre for Soul Noel- a specially commissioned project that sees producers and event organisers ‘Serious’ (London Jazz Festival pioneers) combine forces with ‘Black Routes’ a touring network of African and Caribbean music. The premise is simple- Christmas carols and seasonal songs remixed in the style of [...]
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