Sony Music Entertainment Africa have signed accomplished East African singer-songwriter and musician Alikiba to a global recording agreement. Alikiba and the Sony Music Entertainment team inked the deal during an exclusive, global media audience session at the Sony Music Entertainment Sub Saharan Africa Head Offices in Johannesburg, South Africa and will see the Tanzanian recording […]
Stuart Reece releases his brand new feel-good single, My Sweet Lady, to SA Radio today. My Sweet Lady is the follow-up release to the hit singles Silver Rocket Cadillac and Coming Home, which saw Reece reach #1 on the Algoa Fm Top 30 and chart on radio stations across SA. The single is the 3rd […]
Coldplay have today revealed the amazing video for Up&Up, the anthemic third single from their current album, A Head Full Of Dreams. WATCH THE VIDEO Created by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, the video is a poignant, surrealist montage which alludes to contemporary issues. It also features racehorses galloping on water and a popcorn-spouting volcano. […]
This is the debut single from Port Elizabeth based Christian Rock Pop band Life Lyne – ‘We Will Stand’ is taken off their forthcoming EP, which is set for release in June. Formed in 2011, Life Lyne play melodic, Christian contemporary tunes, with moving vocals that support a hopeful honest message of life and faith […]
Acclaimed Swedish production team Galantis celebrates their new single “No Money” with an amazing video directed by Andrew Donoho. Equal parts Lord of The Flies meets Michael Jackson’s Thriller – the visual features a pack of kids wandering through deserted Atlanta and some intricate face paint added in for good measure! “No Money” garnered over […]
JACQUES MOOLMAN (front man of the SAMA award winning rock band Shadowclub) has announced ‘Love Spell’, the brand new single by Chambers, his eagerly anticipated new solo project. ‘Love Spell’ was written by Jacques Moolman and produced by Craig Massiv and Troydon Murison. Chamber’s much anticipated eight track debut EP “Chambers Deluxe EP” is set for […]
Following the release of his 5 track EP,iDreamInColour on February 4th 2016,South African born Hip Hop artist,producer and published songwriter, QzA, has finallly released his much anticipated Audio Record titled #Forever. Having been making music for the past 6 years, He has been described as a versatile ,packaged artist who brings music of an international […]
Sony Music Entertainment Africa would like to introduce you to one of its newest signings, Johannesburg based production duo Isle of Skye. Having been bubbling for the last couple of years and running in some of the most influential circles in the local industry, Carl von Hoesslin and Rob Jameson have taken the time to […]
El de Soul – an all rounded, atypical musical Minister – is a keyboardist, guitar player, songwriter, composer and singer from Mangaung Bloemfontein. This 30 year old’s first solo offering is a single called “Quite Difficult” from his soon to be released album. This soul-coustic love song ‘QUITE DIFFICULT’ is a window into what is […]
Bheki Ntebe is an upcoming South African hip-hop artist and producer who goes by the stage name Bhekimali. His love for music was greatly influenced by his surroundings growing up NGEKE (meaning “never) is his debut single It was during his high school days that he identified with poetry as well as singing, from which […]
Rene Byrd started her musical career as a singer songwriter by participating in numerous talent contests inter-college competition based in London, which nurtured stars including Daniel and Natasha Bedingfield. Then, aged 14, she joined a band as a backup vocalist. Rene is third generation West Indian and she comes from a religious and musical background. […]
Service Delivery are 3 members – Zesty Tox, rapper B.I.G E.G.O and rapper CoM-Rad. – Service Delivery return with their brand new single ‘BANDO’ After signing to HipRock Music in 2014, the band developed hype by releasing their first single and video ‘Hara Etse’. The track mixed elements of uptempo, urban and hip hop. ‘Hara […]
Sibusiso Sithole, AKA Sparzito is the newest signing to local record label Waveform Pro. His Debut single ’99’ is taken off his EP ‘New Age’. 99 is a hook driven Kwaito single that delivers. Towards the last quarter of 2015 Sparzito was approached by Waveform Pro to pursue his solo career after his amazing performance […]
Producer Tumelo “Tweezy” Mathebula has officially released his first single as an artist titled “Ambitions” making a smooth transition to becoming an artist. This is the first official single from a project he plans to drop towards the end of the year. Tweezy dedicates this single to those who have inspired him on his journey […]
GoodLuck are children of the 90’s, so when they decided they wanted to do a cover song, they chose a song that remains a vivid memory from their childhood. ‘I’ve Been Thinking About You’ by Londonbeat is a song that they remember falling asleep to under the table as their parents danced well into the night. GoodLuck’s take […]
Zaena Morisho who is an African Pop singer and songwriter has certainly made her way into the industry with an interesting style of music. She was born in the DR Congo, but raised in Houston TX which is a huge jump in location, but a fascinating story. By the age of 8 she began singing […]
THIEVE is back with Their highly anticipated sophomore album, EXTRA ORDINARY THIEVE are Andrew Davenport (AKING), Fred Den Hartog (Die Heuwels Fantasties) and new addition, Sheldon Yoko (also drummer for Die Heuwels Fantasties). EXTRA ORDINARY – “Finding the extra-ordinary within the ordinary.” THIEVE loves collecting influences and taking little bits from different sounds – that’s […]
LOST&FOUND has just released a lyric music video for their second single from their self-titled debut album, Learning How to Lie. Glen Hodgson’s vocals perfectly conveys the emotion of this honest and heartfelt song. Learning How to Lie was written by both parts of the duo. “Jason had some lyrics that he was working on […]
Audrey Bading is not only a business woman with a busy schedule, she’s also a singer, a song writer and a producer. To kick start the year she is releasing the first single ‘Stop Pretending” from her album ‘Believe In Yourself to a South African audience. ‘STOP PRETENDING’ has been nominated for the Kora Music […]
SOULTRONIC MUSICAL PRODIGY BYRON MAJOR RETURNS WITH UK PRODUCED SINGLE ‘MAY FLOWER’ “Byron is definitely a music genius and understands the importance of the synergy between classical music and the digital space the industry is following.” – B Sharp Entertainment, 2015 – Byron Major’s single ‘May Flower, has a fresh take on soul and funk. […]
Apachelux are a new duo based in Southend-on-Sea in Essex, UK, and consists of singer Louisa and Jay on guitar, keyboards, bass and drums. It all started at the Village Green Festival in Southend-On-Sea in 2014 when Ross met singer Louisa who was being schmoozed by a friend of Jay’s called Ross. Jays says, “Louisa […]
Thirteen Being is a collaborative project set up and run by Vincent Kane aka Vin100 bringing together his friends’ musical skills. Starting out in London 2008 as Being, Vincent brought together friends who were musicians, DJs, producers and nightclub event organisers to craft a style electronica, which flows from dance dream and they call Inner-Space-Age. […]
South African based Pop artist Mark Counihan releases his brilliant new single ‘Call To Live’. The animated Lyric Video was created with Storyboard, Water Colour Illustration and Animation by Josephine Vorster. LYRIC VIDEO ‘Call To Live’ is taken off the brand new album “To The Brave Ones.” The album is a toast to the courageous […]
Saika is a 24-year-old first generation Haitian-American female singer-songwriter, who conveys the humility of her Haitian roots with the street savvy from her childhood in Brooklyn, New York. Saika now lives in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA. In 2010, Saika says she wanted to learn how to, “express myself after having all these feelings bottled […]
Family Ranks is a 7-piece soul, hip-hop, electronica and reggae collective creating lush expansive arrangements, deep grooves and euphoric festival anthems. To form Family Ranks in 2014, Manchester’s leading songwriters Ruby-Ann Patterson and James Gill joined session musicians in House of Lords, previously the house band for award winning live event All About Good Music, […]
“Raleigh Ritchie might be the best young RnB singer-songwriter in Britain” – The Telegraph “Ritchie’s debut album will be sensational” – Sunday Times Culture “Refreshingly joyful” – The Sun “Pop-soul prince in waiting – Raleigh Ritchie is ready for the throne” – Complex Acclaimed singer/songwriter Raleigh Ritchie released his debut album, ‘You’re A Man Now, Boy’ on February […]
Canadian singer-songwriter, DJ and producer, Myla just released a new collaborative EP with Toronto electronic producer, Dafusia, who originates from Chennai in India. The EP entitled Werk It Out by Myla and Dafusia is now available on all digital music retail. There is a video on YouTube for the title track Werk It Out. The […]
SkullClub, a recently formed duo who fuse the sounds of heavy rock and electronic music are signed to Sony Music and based in Brisbane, Australia. The duo is Matt McGuire, producer, drummer, audio engineer and manager and John Third on guitar, keyboards and electronic controllers, who together combine electronic sounds with live instruments. Matt McGuire […]
Lucius have just revealed their new raucous and infectious pop single ‘Something About You’, set for release on 18th March 2016. ‘Something About You’ is taken from their forthcoming second album ‘Good Grief’ released on 11th March 2016 via Play It Again Sam. In the band’s own words, ‘Blame it on mercury retrograde, or whatever it is, […]
January 27, 2016 – Breakout artist Lukas Graham will release his highly-anticipated U.S. debut on March 25 via Warner Bros. Records. The self-titled album features hit single“7 Years” which is exploding up the charts worldwide. In the U.S. alone, the track is being streamed over two million times a week on Spotify and has been […]
Australian jazz pop musician, Lisa Hugo, who is now a resident of the United Arab Emirates, has released a song for the season called “My Christmas Day”. Singing about love and inner discovery, Lisa pens upbeat tunes with a big voice spanning 3 octaves. She is also an accomplished pianist, actress and dancer. Born into […]
Cold Sugar are a pop-duo based near Cardiff in Penarth, South Wales who formed in the autumn of 2015. The duo is Mark Henwood on keyboards, guitars and vocals with Luisa Davey on vocals. Mark and Luisa recently met on stage in a local production of Hot Mikado, which is a gospel and blues version […]
Durban born Singer, songwriter and dancer Olisha Naicker releases her debut single ‘ I Need You’ As a singer, songwriter and dancer, Olisha is determined to make a name for herself in the pop music industry. She has just released her self-penned first single ‘I Need You’ and is in the midst of completing production […]
Dubai based Mileage 51 play blues-rock that nods to its American and British roots. Their first album Stone Unturned celebrates the classic retro sounds underpinning today’s music scene. On lead vocals and guitar is Lorne Riley Jr. Lorne is from Chapleau in Ontario in north Canada. As a student at Carleton University, Lorne played in […]
South African Singer Songwriter Tim Hendricks releases his brand new album ‘Contemplating Change’ and works as Music Composer / Producer for South African movie ‘The Jakes Are Missing’. The second single ‘Here With Me’ features Ross Learmonth of Prime Circle Fame, and Christina Rodo from Groove Battery Tim Hendricks (33) is a dynamic South African […]
Nine-time GRAMMY® Award winning artist, songwriter and producer, Kirk Franklin’s new album LOSING MY RELIGION is set for release 13th November! LOSING MY RELIGION is described as his “most intentional body of work” and features 13 powerful tracks including the chart topping single “Wanna Be Happy?”. It’s been four years since GRAMMY® winning recording artist, […]
DJ-producer Francis Groove was born and raised in Brussels, Belgium. Francis Groove started out mixing vinyl on turntables, fusing rare groove and RnB with hip-hop and breakbeats. After inspiration from a trip to the U.S. aged 19, which introduced him to house on the New York club scene, he moved towards electro dance music and […]
The new single by UK based musician and songwriter Ollyi.on is called Joy!, which celebrates this positive and hard-won emotional state. Ollyi.on is a singer/songwriter and producer based in Farnborough, Hants in the U.K who plays the flute, saxophone, keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, violin, trumpet and harmonica. As a multi-instrumentalist, it is not surprising that […]
Cape town born Lu Chase is a SAMA nominated songwriter and recording artist acclaimed for her power house vocals and magnetic stage presence. THIS IS HER BRAND NEW MUSIC VIDEO – BY MY SIDE By My Side: Taken off the forthcoming album #Soul’dOut #SouldOut is a culmination of 5 years of writing and consists of […]
After years of focusing her passion on helping others, Mpume Simelane has answered her deeper creative calling. Born in Kwazulu Natal, and a practising doctor, Mpume releases her debut single – the uplifiting Afro Pop, Gospel inspired song ‘Themba’. She calls it ‘Good News Music’ and explains that through her music she wants to reach […]
NEW ALBUM ‘VII’ OPENS AT #2 ON THE ITUNES POP ALBUMS CHART Breakout artist TRESOR today announced that he has signed a worldwide deal with international record label Ultra Records. The deal includes the release and distribution of his music to North & South America, Canada, United Kingdom, Asia, Australia as well as the […]
The new EP Only Life and single Coming Home will soon be released by UK singer-songwriter Will Guest, who was inspired by music including 70s and 80s funk, rock and acoustic songs by artists such as Damien Rice and David Gray. Will Guest, known for the humour in his performance, is from Northamptonshire where he […]
Jeremy Loops’ debut album ‘Trading Change’ has officially gone gold in SA! Trading Change has sold over 20,000 copies since its release in 2014, and is enjoying similar fanfare in North America, where the album debuted at #17 on Bilboard’s Heatseeker Chart the week of 24 August. Speaking on this remarkable achievement for […]