Orchestra Baobab Releases New Video and Reissues Specialist In All Styles on Vinyl
Senegalese act Orchestra Baobab is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the reissue of its essential 2002 reunion album Specialist In All Styles for the first…
Bosnian Musician Damir Imamović Tops the Transglobal World Music Chart in July 2020
The album Singer of Tales by Bosnian artist Musician Damir Imamović is the number one album in the Transglobal World Music Chart in July 2020.…
Ghanaian Band Santrofi at the top of the World Music Charts Europe in July 2020
The album Alewa by modern Ghanaian highlife band Santrofi is the top album at the World Music Charts Europe in July 2020. July 2020 list:…
Artist Profiles: Santrofi
Santrofi is a modern highlife band from Accra, Ghana. It was founded by bassist and producer Emmanuel Ofori. Ofori became a band leader after playing…
Splendid Oud and Orchestra
Joseph Tawadros – Live at the Sydney Opera House (ABC Classics, 2020) Egyptian-Australian oud master Jospeh Tawadros has recorded a sublime live album with the…
Artist Profiles: Joseph Tawadros
CéU Solidly in the Pop Field
CéU – Apka! (Six Degrees Records, 2020) One of Brazil’s best known female vocalists in the international, music scene is back with Apka! Don’t expect…
Artist Profiles: Ivana Đurić
Ivana Đurić was born in 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is a virtuoso violin player. Ivana started her classical music education when she was 9…
Artist Profiles: Damir Imamović
Damir Imamović was born in 1978 in Sarajevo, the former Yugoslavia and currently located in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Damir is a singer, musician, author and sevdah master. …
Artist Profiles: Walter Ferguson
Walter “Gavitt” Ferguson Byfield, better known as Walter Ferguson, was born May 7, 1919 in Guabito, Panama. His father, Melsha Lorenzo Ferguson, was a Jamaican…