James Brown

James Brown

male, deceased (2006)
James Joseph Brown (May 3 1933 – December 25 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Bu...
Prince Nico Mbarga

Prince Nico Mbarga

male, deceased (1997)
Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 - 24 June, 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki,...
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin

Cynthia Tse Kimberlin

female
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin (born Cynthia Mei-Ling Tse in Ganado, Arizona, United States) is an American ethnomusicologist. She is the Executive Director...
Marie Daulne

Marie Daulne

female
Marie Daulne, founder and lead singer of the group Zap Mama, was born in 1964 in Congo Kinshasa. Her father, Cyrille Daulne, was a Walloon...
Judith Sephuma

Judith Sephuma

female
Judith Sephuma is a South African jazz and Afro-pop singer. She grew up in Polokwane and moved to Cape Town in 1994 to study as a jazz vocalist. In...
Joy Denalane

Joy Denalane

female, 36 years old
Joy Maureen Denalane (born 1973 in Berlin) is a German singer and songwriter, known for her mixture of Soul, R&B and African Folk music with lyrics...
Cool James

Cool James

male, deceased (2002)
Cool James, real name James Dandu also known as "Mtoto wa Dandu"(b. 1970 in Mwanza, Tanzania, d. August 27, 2002) was a Tanzanian musician. Having...
Paul Cebar

Paul Cebar

male
Paul Cebar is a bandleader from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who has a penchant for African, Latin American and Caribbean music. He has released four...
Abderrahmane Abdelli

Abderrahmane Abdelli

male, 51 years old
Abderrahmane Abdelli (born April 2, 1958) is an Algerian-born author, composer, and singer songwriter known for mixing the traditional African...