The Imo State government will host this year’s edition of the Igbo Music Award, an event seeking to preserve and promote the Igbo culture through its music. It is through Igbo music as produced by the ...

Highlife music is a genre that has been harmonising culture and beats in Nigeria and across Africa for decades. In this interview, Nigerian highlife singer CHIBUIKE JOHNPAUL ANEKWE, best known by his ...

Read the first part of this series on the pioneers of Igbo highlife music here. Igbo highlife provided comfort and hope for the Igbos, an ethnic group living mainly in southeastern Nigeria, after a ...

Fast-rising artist, Onwurah Johnson aka 2y Mexino has opened up on why he has decided to promote his culture through his style of music. The indigenous act made this known in a recent chat while ...

KCee tells Pulse about 'Cultural Praise,' E-Money, Igbo culture, his background and more. In December 2020, as a veteran Nigerian artist and hitmaker, KCee made a surprising career move by releasing ...

Fifteen years ago, something truly special dropped onto the music scene: Flavour N’abania’s second album, Uplifted. This was a first showcase of his talent. With powerful vocals, masterful highlife ...

They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

Nigerian highlife music has played an important role in the country's cultural scene since it became one of the most popular music genres in the 1960s. One characteristic of the music of this era was ...

Emerging from the bustling commercial city of Onitsha, the vibrant music scene embraces rich indigenous Igbo music in offering a different variant of Afrobeats. One of the artists leading this charge ...