Artists

Karyna Gomes is a singer and songwriter who started at the age of 21 by singing gospel music in 1997 in São Paulo, Brazil, while she studied journalism.

Her passion for music came earlier as she grew up surrounded by musicians in Guinea-Bissau, listening to traditional and urban read more

Kasai Allstars are a 25-piece musical collective based in Kinshasa, DRC. The group is unique in the history of Congolese music as the members hail from multiple tribes and bands, all from the Kasai region.  Historically, these tribes endured conflicting relationships over read more

Blending a mix of traditional Tanzanian and Zanzibari styles with modern music, Kashakali is a group of four artists - two female dancers and two male singers, With their single Zanzibar Hakuna Matata which is Hiphop, R&B and Pemba's Kyaso all in one, the group has taken Zanzibar by storm, read more

Kassim Hemed Mganga is originally from Tanga region but received his primary and secondary education in Dar es Salaam. He started in music during 2002. A few years later in 2005, he released his first song Shanaiza, but despite receiving radio airplay it didn't really hit. In 2006 he released read more

Katapila Ngoma started in 1980, with 15 musicians playing traditional drum and dance music of the Pogoro tribe, from Morogoro region of mainland Tanzania.

Around 1986 they added more cultural traditions to their regular repertoire, including sindimba, lizombe and others. From 1990 their fanbase started to explode, when they developed a read more

Members of Jagwa Music and the international electronica artists Teichmann Brothers met during a recent Jagwa performance in Berlin's Urban Spree club. The Brothers invited them to their studio the following day and after an extended jam it was decided that this needs to go on stage. International reviewers of read more