Nakhane, 30 years old, has just released a unique album, mixing David Bowie’s pop, Marvin Gaye’s soul, church choirs and the house beats he’s been drowning to in clubs. Interview with a surprising artist whose […]
PAM’s music critics share their nominations for the best Pan-African albums of the year. The list below is made up of personal favorites to the Pan African Music team, and is just a small roundup of […]
He escaped from Luanda’s ghetto at 17, and recently escaped temporarily from his Porto-based “kudurock” trio Throes + The Shine. Angolan singer and musician Diron Animal plays it solo with his debut album, Alone, proudly released […]
Western travelers are fewer and fewer in Sahel today. Especially when it comes to record music. This is exactly the moment Chris Kirkley chose to explore this territory through his label Sahel Sounds, a collective […]
We met with Sampa The Great, Zambian female poet and rapper who has just released the mixtape Birds And The BEE9 on UK label Big Dada. Sampa Tembo’s music sounds like a mysterious and spiritual […]
After two EPs and a debut album (Le Dernier Empereur Bantou) that explored an eclectic range of music genres and themes, Pierre Kwenders asserts himself with elegance in a afro-futurist style on this second LP, aptly titled […]
Rumba as a bridge between Africa and Northern America via the Caribbean: ÌFÉ is the musical and spiritual project of the Afro-American DJ, producer, percussionist and composer Otura Mun, born Mark Underwood in the US, and […]
At 91 years, the transgressive diva of Brazilian popular music died at home in Rio. Born on the “planet of hunger”, queen of the “bossa negra”, she lived several lives, the last of which – that of the “woman of the end of the world”, had begun in 2015. Two years later, she gave an interview to PAM.