Youssou N'Dour is as grand a figure as African music has yet produced. Twenty-five years ago, Folk Roots magazine named him "Artist of the Century," but this was hardly a valedictory. N'Dour has been ...

Over the course of a five-decade career, Newman has graced stages across the world with the likes of Salif Keita, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, Youssou N’Dour and Sting. While his repertoire is vast ...

Lopa Kothari welcomes Spanish singer and trombonist Rita Payés into the Music Planet studio for a special acoustic session featuring her mother Elisabeth Roma on the classical guitar. Rita, originally ...

David Byrne has a long history of celebrating the music of the African continent, and recently curated a playlist of his ...

Canal Street in Lower Manhattan runs just over a mile from East Broadway to West Street. It’s big, broad and bustling and many the famous person from Alexander Hamilton to Lou Reed has walked the wild ...

On Wednesday Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell announced that US interest rates would remain unchanged. But the monetary policy committee is clearly worried that tariffs might slow growth and ...

He spent time in Senegal, for instance, working with the singer-songwriter Youssou N'Dour and Orchestra Baobob, with those influences making their way onto Lándini. "I have learnt that music has the ...

Aurelio Martínez, the celebrated Honduran folk musician who helped introduce the wider world to the music of the Garifuna people, died Monday, March 17, in a small passenger plane crash.

A plane crash off the coast of a Caribbean island has resulted in the death of at least 12 people including Honduran musician, Aurelio Martinez. The musician is a prominent name in the Garifuna ...

Masaneh could arrange anything. Working as the restaurant manager of the Fajara Hotel way back in 1987 he would welcome every tourist making them feel as though they were the most important guests ...