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Benin has played an important role in the African music scene, producing one of the biggest stars to come out of the continent in Angélique Kidjo. Post-independence, the country was home to a vibrant and innovative music scene, where native folk music combined with Ghanaian highlife, French cabaret, American rock, funk and soul, and Congolese ...
Edo funk is a musical style from Benin City, Edo State, created in the early 1970s. [1] The Edo Funk music genre is a cosmopolitan popular dance music with integrating elements from the native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects coming from Nigerian night-clubs. [1]
Music organisations based in Benin (1 C) Beninese musicians (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Music of Benin" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Contemporary styles of music in West Africa have been influenced by American music, African jazz and gospel music. [2] The forced migration of Africans to the Americas as a result of the transatlantic slave trade gave rise to kaiso [ 3 ] music, which has influenced the sounds of Calypso , [ 4 ] a style with major popularity throughout West Africa.
Yoruba music is the pattern/style of music practiced by the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Togo, and Benin. It is perhaps best known for its extremely advanced drumming tradition and techniques, especially using the gongon [ 1 ] hourglass shape tension drums .
African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop, Afro pop or African pop), [1] can be defined as any African music, regardless of genre, that uses Western pop musical instruments, such as the guitar, piano, trumpet, etc. [2] Afropop is a genre of music that combines elements from both African traditional music with Western pop music ...
West African music (yellow on the map) includes the music of Senegal and the Gambia, of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia, of the inland plains of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso and also the coastal nations of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo as well as the islands of Cape ...
Africa portal; Music portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. Beninese singers by language (3 C) + Beninese male ...