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The three members of Explosión Negra combine native Colombian sounds like cumbia and buyerengue with modern elements like hip hop, dancehall, reggae, raggamurfy, etc. Nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Tropical Fusion Album category in 2016, band members […]

For songwriter and lyricist Kim Hairston, working in the music industry isn’t something that’s been a lifelong career. In fact, the 61-year-old only began writing lyrics professionally about eight years ago. Before that, she had (and still owns) her own […]

When looking at the impact of cultural fluidity on music, you don’t have to look very far as it is everywhere. Some of the most famous and well known musicians are culturally fluid, or from a different background than most.  […]

In music, cultural mobility is fairly common. Many songs have artists attempting to convey a small piece of another culture through their music. Culture is a very broad topic. According to “United Cultures”: There are countless cultures and subcultures in […]

K-pop, or Korean pop, is on plenty of radars today. However, K-pop is not a new fad — the genre has existed for around 30 years, with BTS being the biggest and most recent example. Surprisingly, K-pop spawned from the […]

When thinking of reggae music, a lot of people normally think of Bob Marley. He was born in Jamaica in 1945 and died in 1981 due to cancer. His name still remains relevant, well-known and evergreen, even 40-plus years later. […]

Robyn Rihanna Fenty, known most commonly to her fans as Rihanna, is a singer, actress, and business woman whose influence can be seen worldwide. As a global superstar, Fenty makes sure to represent her cross-cultural background through her music, fashion […]

In this episode, Doni and Dr. Rhonda continue their chat with Emilio Sasamu Thomas, specifically his musical journey, the foundations of that and what brought him to the place he is now in his career. Sasamu talks about how the […]