Kenyans love Bongo Flava. Our airwaves, TV music shows, local shops and even promotional roadshows play a good amount of Bongo music. And what’s not to love about these Tanzanian songs? The beats are ...

The seductive sounds of Amapiano, the South African phenomenon that has swept the music scene, have met the essence of Bongo music to create a hybrid that is winning fans. In this genre-defying ...

East African music is turning heads on the global stage. Tanzanian stars AY, Harmonize, and Fid Q have reached a major ...

2015 has been a banner year for hip-hop that very few people probably saw coming back in January. With new projects from Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Future, and so many more to name, it is hard to remember ...

NEW YORK CITY (WKRC) - A new bingo craze has taken hold in America. According to The New York Post,Bongo's Bingo is quickly growing in popularity in New York City. Per the publication, Bongo's Bingo ...

But that’s probably akin to suggesting that the first Ramones album would have been better if they’d done a couple of ballads and added orchestra strings to “Chain Saw”. But having said that, I’ve ...

Preston Epps, a percussionist whose 1959 instrumental "Bongo Rock" helped introduce bongos and conga drums to mainstream pop, has died. He was 88. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Preston Epps, a ...

Led by Tripp Nasty and Zach Spencer, Bongo Fury (due at Glob on Tuesday, September 29) combines the fascination that Nasty and Spencer share for traditional Middle Eastern music and the folk music of ...

When a fresh-faced gap-toothed 18-year-old singer from Kinshasa called Kanda Bongo (later known as Kanda Bongo Man) arrived in France in 1979, there were few opportunities for musicians from Africa.

Bongo was forced to cancel the tour dates due to ongoing issues with his previously announced battle with leukemia.