Dorothy Masuka, a vocalist and songwriter who blazed a trail for female pop stars in South Africa and became a dogged advocate of the struggle against apartheid.

Various Baaba Maal live concerts around the world. With Carlos Santana and U2 Angelique Kidjo and other artists

African Musician - Baaba Maal portraits in the UK and Senegal

Bayete's Jabu Khanyile was born in Soweto, His father was a miner and performed traditional a capella songs, and his brother John played in a reggae and soul covers band. Jabu followed them into music, Khanyile was born in Soweto, and was forced to abandon his education at the age of fourteen in order to earn a living, after his mother died. His father was a miner and performed traditional a capella songs, and his brother John played in a reggae and soul covers band. Jabu followed them into music and by 1984 Khanyile had joined Bayete as drummer, a band that combined Afro-jazz and reggae. Bayete split up in 1992, and Khanyile embarked on a solo career, with releases credited to Jabu Khanyile & Bayete, although none of the original members of Bayete were involved by this time. Khanyile became known internationally in 1996 after an appearance at the Royal Gala evening in honour of Nelson Mandela.

Amadou & Mariam are a blind musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals). The pair met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind, where they both performed at the Institute’s Eclipse Orchestra, directed by Idrissa Soumaouro, and found they shared an interest in music.

Carlos Manuel had been a member of the Mayohuacan, Carapacho and Irakere groups in Cuba, and had had success within Cuba as vocalist with Carlos Manuel y su Clan, which he founded in 1997. In 2001, he was voted the most popular artist in Cuba, Clan decreed the best new band, and his song "Malo Cantidad" the most listened to. In 2003, after performing a concert in Mexico City, Pruneda boarded a plane and flew to Monterrey, Mexico. He boarded a cab and drove to the US border crossing at Brownsville, Texas where he asked for asylum. Wikipedia

The African National Congress Choir

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo commonly known as Angélique Kidjo, is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.

Anoushka Shankar is an Indian sitar player and composer. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar. These grainy live images were taken at the Jazz Cafe London 2009.

Arrow's "Hot, Hot, Hot" of 1982 was his seminal piece of work and remains the largest-selling soca number.

Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga. Their distinctive sound also combines indo-dub basslines, searing sitar-inspired guitars and ‘traditional’ sounds, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics.

The East Wind alerts the world to the arrival of a major new talent. Cissè Diamba. From Senegal live in London.

The musical diversity found in Colombia is a result of a mixing African, Indigenous, and Spanish European influences, together with more modern American and Caribbean musical forms, Cuban, and Jamaican.

Damon Albarn - Musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. Frontman for Blur and Gorillaz. Showcasing world music with a series of concerts under the banner of Africa Express.

David Rudder is one of the most successful calypsonians of all time. These photographs were taken in 1989 at home in Trinidad.

Solo and Ellika - Senegalese folk music or griot music, meet the Swedish polska.

The Kabul Ensemble, devoted to the performance of traditional music from Afghanistan, was formed in 1995 by Hossein Arman, a renowned singer in his native Afghanistan who was forced into exile by the political situation there.

Live at the Barbican. Appearing together for the first time outside of Ethiopia is lead vocalist Mahmoud Ahmed, arranger and composer Mulatu Astatqé, pioneer of free jazz – saxophonist Gétachèw Mèkurya and Alèmayèhu Eshèté, one of the most prolific singers in Ethiopian recorded music.

Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris, consisting of musicians Philippe Cohen Solal, Eduardo Makaroff, and Christoph H. Müller.

Photographs of Fela Kuti and his wives at the Shrine in Lagos 1978. These photos include some nice pics of Sandra Izsadore. Fela Anikulapo Kuti 1938 - 1997 was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick. These photographs taken in Lagos and London

Kanda Bongo Man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a prominent soukous musician.

"King" Sunny Adé is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian jùjú music and a pioneer of modern world music.

Kauding Cissoko, was a master kora player and member of Baaba Maal’s band.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon

Los de Abajo are a band from Mexico City founded in 1992 as a Latin ska four-piece.

Los Van Van is a Cuban band led by bassist Juan Formell, and is the most recognized post-revolution Cuban band.

Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician. He was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville 2007.

Master Drummer, Composer, and Choreographer Malik Sow, born in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, hails from the Fulani ethnic group of West Africa.

Majek Fashek, is a Nigerian reggae singer-songwriter and guitarist. In his homeland he is best known for the 1988 album Prisoner of Conscience which included the single "Send Down the Rain", winning him several awards. Fashek's musical influences include Bob Marley - whom he resembles vocally - Jimi Hendrix, and Fela Kuti. He was one of the original Nigerian artists to be drawn to the music of the Caribbean, specifically reggae.

Manu Chao (José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao) is a French singer of Spanish Basque roots He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages. Chao began his musical career in Paris, busking and playing with groups such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos, which combined a variety of languages and musical styles. With friends and his brother Antoine Chao, he founded the band Mano Negra in 1987, achieving considerable success, particularly in Europe. He became a solo artist after its breakup in 1995, and since then tours regularly with his live band, Radio Bemba. wikipedia

Mariza or Marisa dos Reis Nunes from Portuguese Mozambique is a popular fado singer.

Naná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player.

Nothembi Mkhwebane

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan a world-renowned Pakistani musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis.

1 Giant Leap is a concept band and media project consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto (Faithless founding member) and Duncan Bridgeman.

Orchestra Baobab is a Senegalese Afro-Cuban, Son, Wolof and Pachanga band.

Positive Black Soul is a hip hop group based in Dakar, Senegal, one of the first such collectives in the country.

Salif Keïta is an afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali. He is unique not only because of his reputation as the "Golden Voice of Africa" but because he has albinism and is a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita.

SANDRA IZSADORE is a singer composer who during the early 1970’s met and revitalized Africa’s revolutionary genius FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI. Upon meeting Sandra, Fela’s musical and political ideas changed radically, thus Afro-Beat was born.

Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican and American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, Latin music and jazz fusion.

Sidestepper is a Colombian band centered around English DJ/producer Richard Blair and Colombian producer/songwriter Ivan Benavides.

Talvin Singh Matharoo, is a producer and composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass.

Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo is a Zimbabwean musician known as "The Lion of Zimbabwe" and "Mukanya" for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music.

Tinariwen is a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s.

Tony Oladipo Allen is a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter.

Ustad Mahwash is a popular Afghan singer. She was the first woman to have been conferred the honorary title of “Ustad”.

Vanessa Brown, also known as V V Brown, is an English singer, songwriter, model, producer and world music collaborator.

Ria is a music style that originated in Algeria in the 1930s. It appealed to young people who sought to modernize the traditional Islamic values and attitudes. In December 1980 I traveled with Chris Salewicz to Algeria, he a mission to hook up with a French camera crew and shoot a short film for MTV on Algeria's Ria music scene and I came along to shoot stills. Algeria was not a safe place then and the airport wasn't at all welcoming. By the time we arrived the French film crew had been detained indefinitely, and we were on our own. So after finding a video camera and microphone and avoiding police attention, our local contact drove us out of Algiers to Rachid Babau2019s studio in Tlemcen. Chris did the interviews on film himself without a crew and I shot some stills. We left the country on the same day, minutes from the Police catching up with us. These photos were shot in the studio and at the ruins of al-Mansura. Cheb Khaled (Khaled Hadj Ibrahim) producer. Following threats from Islamists, Khaled moved to France. Chaba Fadela is an Algerian musician and actress married to Cheb Sahraoui. She was the first woman to defy the ban on women singing in clubs. Rachid Baba Ahmed Algerian musical producer with his studio in tlemcen pioneered Ria music. He was murdered by Islamic fundamentalists on February 15, 1995, outside his record store in Oran.