THANDA CHOIR Thanda Choir, founded in 2023 in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa, offers young people in the township an opportunity to express themselves, learn and flourish through music. Designed to address local everyday challenges, the project provides a safe space where teenagers can develop their artistic and leadership skills, as well as career prospects in the arts. Thanda Choir’s mission is clear: to strengthen community pride,… Read more →
NEW ALBUM Early 2026 Four years after “Mama forgot her name was miracle”, the Canadian Mélissa Laveaux returns with a fifth album due for early 2026. As a crossing between life and death, this new album summons mythology, family memory and political commitment. Death becomes a companion, an inspiration and a musical motif, never taboo in his Haitian… Read more →
Cléa Vincent has established herself as a standard-bearer of a renewed French pop scene through her EPs and three albums. Determined, spontaneous, and inseparable from her keyboard, this versatile artist has been playing for as long as the conservatory can remember. With her candid and inspired lyrics, irresistible melodies, and distinctive music videos, she has created an original neo-romantic setting—… Read more →
KUTU new album “MARDA” (Naïve / Believe / February 2025) In 2020, amidst the Covid pandemic, Théo Ceccaldi finds himself drawn to Ethiopia for a breath of fresh air. The immediate cultural shock of bustling Addis Ababa, and the encounter with singer Hewan Gebrewold, prove pivotal. Two entirely unknown worlds are tamed, giving birth to the unique sound of KUTU,… Read more →
JOÃO SELVA new album “Onda” (Underdog Records / January 2025) Son of a pastor from Ipanema, the Carioca João Selva is “one of the best ambassadors of Brazilian music” according to France Culture. But that’s not all… his musical universe, full of sunshine and abundance, spans a wide range of musical influences: from Angolan semba to Cape Verdean funaná, from… Read more →
EL GATO NEGRO New album “Crying Tiger” 26th January 2024 15 years of travels in South America and Africa, influenced by cumbia, salsa, paso, cha cha and bolero, Afro-cuban and African musics, meetings with artists like La Yegros, Calypso Rose, Oxmo Puccino, Guts, etc., the French artist El Gato Negro mixes all his influences to make his own version of… Read more →
NEW ALBUM Nø Førmat ! / February 2026 The Bahian artist Lucas Santtana’s tenth studio album is expected early 2026. Born 1970 in Salvador de Bahia, son of Roberto Sant’Ana, legendary producer of the Tropicalistas (Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Santtana’s uncle, Tom Zé), Lucas Santtana was called upon by his elders to play on “Tropicalia 2” and Gilberto Gil Unplugged, before braving the electro-rock of Chico… Read more →
Album “LEGACY” [Underdog Records / 02 September 2022 ] Rebecca M’Boungou grew up between two cultures, having Congolese roots and living in South West of France. In 2014, Rebecca M’Boungou met the gypsy jazz guitarist and Mandingo percussionist Arnaud Estor, and they created the duet Kolinga. In Lingala (one of the languages of Congo), Kolinga means binding to someone in a close… Read more →
KLÔ PELGAG new album “Abracadabra” (Secret City Records / October 2024) Klô Pelgag is a songwriter, pianist and guitarist from Quebec. Her first LP “The Alchemy of Monsters” won many prizes and was acclaimed by the critics in Canada. With the last one “Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs” she has reached nearly 3 million streams, and #1 on the Quebec charts and #2 in… Read more →
The legendary Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo of Cotonou is much more than just a music band in Benin and Western African countries, it is like a banner. After the release of their last album “Madjafalao” at Because Music in 2016, and successful tours in 2016, 2017 and 2018, the famous orchestra was back on tour at Summer 2025, performing a few gigs in The… Read more →
