If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

This may come as a surprise to some familiar with the coffee-roasting rock ‘n’ roller’s plans to open Seattle’s newest music venue — one that is definitely not named after Keanu Reeves’ assassin alias ...

Nigerian Ghetto singer from Ajegunle, Lagos State, born Friday Igwe, but popularly known as Baba Fryo, has categorically stated that he did not quit music because of frustration, as the rumour mill ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

It's Friday night in Bamako, and a club in the Malian capital has come alive. Guitarist and singer Baba Salah is on the floor. His hometown of Gao, along the banks of the River Niger on the fringes of ...

Music is universal. It conveys meaning to people, irrespective of cultural, racial, linguistic and geographical diversities. The English dictionary defines music as vocal or instrumental sounds (or ...