A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B. Often boosted by social media, many of them got ...

Lyor Cohen’s message to the regional music scene is clear: don’t remix your sound to fit western expectations. The global head of music at YouTube says artists who travel are the ones who move outward ...

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West ...