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‘Jazz isn’t about perfection’: drummer Billy Cobham on Miles Davis, Massive Attack and still learning at 80

After a grounding with genre greats, he fused jazz with rock to outrageously funky effect. Ahead of UK dates, he explains why two prosthetic hips aren’t slowing him down

The Guardian - UK

‘Why shouldn’t power be Black’? How Miriam Makeba won and lost the US

The Black South African singer defied the odds to become a household name in the US. Then she was cancelled.

Al Jazeera

Lupita Nyong’o says relationship with Selema Masekela ‘extinguished by deception’

Oscar-winner said she finds herself in a ‘season of heartbreak’ amid alleged ‘deception’

The Independent UK

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‘We just click!’ Lupita Nyong’o announces new relationship with Instagram video

Lupita Nyong’o has made her relationship with Selema Masekela Instagram official

The Independent UK

Lupita Nyong’o reveals relationship with boyfriend Selema Masekela

Lupita Nyong’o has made her relationship with Selema Masekela Instagram official

The Independent UK

Super Afro Soul: the music of Orlando Julius, titan of Nigerian music

Highlife crooner and Afrobeat singer Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode died, according to his wife Latoya Aduke, in his sleep on 15 April 2022.

The Conversation

Jazz: South Africa's Shane Cooper and his band Mabuta make borders irrelevant

South African jazz seems to be having another international moment. Recently, for example, the Blue Note jazz label launched a new imprint, Blue Note Africa dedicated to the continent’s music. Its first release – and his second for the label – will be South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini’s In the…

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Orlando Julius obituary

Saxophonist, singer and bandleader whose fusions of highlife and American styles helped transform Nigerian music

The Guardian - UK

Ziggy bows out, Madonna scares the pope and Dylan goes electric: 50 gigs that changed music

Five decades after David Bowie’s seminal tour, our music writers reflect on the concerts that have left a mark, from Billie Holiday to Billie Eilish

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