- 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...
- 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,...
- female
- Cynthia Tse Kimberlin (born Cynthia Mei-Ling Tse in Ganado, Arizona, United States) is an American ethnomusicologist. She is the Executive Director...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- male
- Paul Cebar is a bandleader from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who has a penchant for African, Latin American and Caribbean music. He has released four...
- 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...
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