Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singer LUDMILLA performs onstage during Weekend 2 - Day 3 of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on ...

As Brazilian funk sub-genre bruxaria catapults across the globe, São Paulo-hailing DJ and producer Caio Prince is propelling ...

A pattern is starting to appear in Cimafunk’s album titles. The Afro-Cuban funk artist named his 2017 debut “Terapia,” or “Therapy,” and his 2021, Grammy-nominated follow-up was called “El Alimento,” ...

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Last year’s CimaFest NOLA was a chance for Cimafunk to tie together a lot of his life and work. He had recently made New Orleans a new homebase, and he along with his band La Tribu and a stage full of ...

Brazil has long been a laboratory for sonic innovation, synthesizing the unique musical traditions of the country’s diverse population. At the cutting edge is baile funk, a sound that stems back ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) - Funk music is unifying in many ways – not only because it brings together several musical genres to create a unique sound, but also because of its ability to unite people. This ...

Musician George Clinton arrives at the 1st Annual Black Music Action Coalition’s Music in Action Awards held at the 1 Hotel West Hollywood on September 23, 2021 in West Hollywood. (Photo by Xavier ...

GRETNA, La. (WGNO) — The 31st annual Gretna Fest is this upcoming weekend. Performers like Sam Hunt, Collective Soul, Trombone Shorty, Amanda Shaw and Nastasha Bedingfield will all take the stage. To ...

Music How Inbraza Builds Community Through Baile Funk Founded by Brazilian creative Luara Brandão, Inbraza is building a platform for Baile Funk in Australia while centring QTBIPOC artists and ...

Bowling Green State University celebrates an American original musical genre with the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference April 25-26, 2025. A two-day event packed with guest speakers and a ...