A Toledo musician has opened a museum to preserve the history of sacred steel, an African American gospel tradition built ...

Jon Batiste's eyes lit up as he walked through the National Museum of African American Music to see his exhibit among legends ...

A new musical instrument drive aims to provide local kids with the gift of music while encouraging early spring cleaning.

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor.

Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician whose sound and politics reshaped modern African music, has been named the first African artist to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Recording Academy ...

Tributes continue to pour in for “The Minister of Music” Pops Mohamed, who died at the age of 75 on Thursday after dedicating his life to creating music and becoming a significant figure in South ...

Big Money” recently received three Grammy nominations including Best American Roots Performance, Best American Roots Song and Best Americana Album.

The late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has become the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime ...

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience for the last time. Last ...

A museum in Britain has opened a gallery displaying thousands of African artefacts it knows very little about, hoping to spark a conversation on colonial-era looting and restitution.

Musicians played newly-invented instruments on the ‘Avatar’ set, composer Simon Franglen tells Classic FM. Avatar returns to ...

While many are aware the pacemaker is a WNY innovation, not everyone knows the kazoo has a local origin. The instrument just ...