Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On July 14, 2022, YouTube made a special playlist and video celebrating the 317 music videos to have hit 1 billion views and joined the "Billion Views Club". [65] [66] On April 1, 2024, the communications app Discord incorporated a short trailer video into their in-app April Fools' Day prank regarding loot boxes. The video automatically looped ...
His first album, Anar, was recorded in Sokoto, Nigeria, in 2008 and prominently featured autotuned vocals and influences from Hausa music. [3] [8] [9] The album was not officially released at the time but the songs became popular across the Sahel when they went viral through mobile phone music trading networks. [10]
The music of Niger has developed from the musical traditions of a mix of ethnic groups; Hausa, the Zarma-Songhai, Tuareg, Fula, Kanuri, Toubou, Diffa Arabs and Gurma and the Boudouma from Lac Chad. Most traditions existed quite independently in French West Africa but have begun to form a mixture of styles since the 1960s.
Orchestra Baobab is a Senegalese band established in 1970 as the house band of the Baobab Club in Dakar. Many of the band's original members had previously played with Star Band de Dakar in the 1960s.
Adé Bantu – Nigerian-German musician, producer, front man of the 13 piece band BANTU; Adekunle Gold – singer, songwriter; Adesua Etomi-Wellington; Adewale Ayuba – fuji music singer; Ado Gwanja – hausa singer; Afrikan Boy – rapper; Afro Candy – pop singer; Alamu Atatalo – sekere singer, a type of traditional Yoruba music
Jagz Nation, Vol. 2: Royal Niger Company is an all-out rap album that doesn't favor any mainstream commercial appeal. [10] On the Joe Louis-inspired album's opener "Louis", Jesse Jagz raps about one finding their inner strength; the song is a mixture of rap and Rastafarian styles.
Omara "Bombino" Moctar (in Tifinagh ⴱⵓⵎⴱⵉⵏⵓ; born 1980) is a Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist from Niger. His music is sung in Tamasheq and often addresses Tuareg geopolitical concerns. [1] Bombino is the subject of the documentary film Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion.
Mercy Eke // ⓘ (born 29 September 1990), is a Nigerian media personality, actress, video vixen and entrepreneur from Imo State.She won season 4 of Big Brother Naija in October 2019, becoming the first woman to win the reality show.