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Santi
Santi, also known as Ozzy B, is a Nigerian singer, rapper, and director who leads Lagos's alté scene; his debut album Mandy & The Jungle came out in 2019.
Sara Tavares
Sara Tavares (1978–2023) was a Portuguese singer, songwriter, and guitarist of Cape Verdean descent who rose to fame at Eurovision 1994, aged 16, and later found international success with her 2005 album Balancê.
Sarz
Sarz (born Osabuohien Osaretin, 1989, Benin City, Nigeria) is a Nigerian record producer and defining Afrobeats figure who coproduced Drake's "One Dance" and released "Monalisa" with Lojay.
Sasha P
Sasha P (Anthonia Yetunde Alabi, born 1983) is a Nigerian rapper styled the First Lady of Nigerian hip hop, known for her 2007 debut album First Lady.
Sauti Sol
Sauti Sol is a Kenyan Afropop band formed in Nairobi in 2005 by three vocalists and a guitarist, and the first Kenyan act to win an MTV Europe Music Award.
Sauti za Busara
Sauti za Busara is an annual pan-African music festival held every February in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania, launched in 2003 by Busara Promotions, with 400 groups from 40 countries having performed.
Sean Lifer
Sean Lifer, born Prince Boateng, is a Ghanaian rapper and producer from Kumasi who co-founded Life Living Records, the label at the center of Asakaa drill.
Semba
Semba is an Angolan popular music and partner dance that emerged in Luanda in the 1940s, blending percussion and guitar, and later fed the rise of kizomba.
Serge Beynaud
Serge Beynaud (Guy Serge Beynaud Gnolou, born 1987 in Abidjan) is an Ivorian singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer, a leading name in post-coupé-décalé Ivorian pop.
Serge Mabiala
Serge Mabiala is a Congolese rumba and ndombolo singer, known as Fumu ya bandinga, who sang with Wenge Musica Maison Mère before a solo career in France.
Seyi Vibez
Seyi Vibez, born Balogun Afolabi Oluwaloseyi in 2000, is a Nigerian street-pop singer whose 2022 album Billion Dollar Baby and hit "Chance (Na Ham)" brought mainstream fame.
Shakes & Les
Shakes & Les are a South African amapiano DJ and production duo from Mpumalanga, formed in 2021 and known for their 2023 hit "Funk 55".
Shallipopi
Shallipopi (born Crown Uzama) is a Nigerian singer and rapper from Benin City who broke out in 2023 with "Elon Musk" and calls his style "Afro Pluto".
Shaunmusiq
Shaunmusiq, also billed with Ftears as ShaunMusiQ & Ftears, is a South African amapiano and Bacardi producer-DJ duo from Pretoria known for the 2023 double-platinum hit "Bhebha".
Shaydee
Shaydee (Shadrach Adeboye Folarin) is a Nigerian singer and songwriter best known for his years on Banky W's EME label and his 2016 debut album Rhythm and Life.
Shebeshxt
Shebeshxt, born Lehlogonolo Katlego Chauke and also known as Shebe Mabhena, is a South African lekompo rapper from Lebowakgomo, Limpopo, whose 2021 single "Ke Di Shxt Malume" went viral on TikTok.
Sheng
Sheng is a Swahili-based urban youth slang that originated in Nairobi's Eastlands estates, first recorded in 1965, and is now spoken across Kenya and heard in genge and gengetone music.
Sherrie Silver
Sherrie Silver is a Rwandan-born, UK-based dancer, choreographer, and activist who choreographed Childish Gambino's "This Is America" (2018), winning the MTV VMA for Best Choreography as the first African winner.
Shimmy Beach Club
Shimmy Beach Club was a purpose-built beach club, restaurant, and concert venue at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, which traded from 2012 until closing during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
Shina Peters
Sir Shina Peters (Oluwashina Akanbi Peters), born 1958 in Lagos, is a Nigerian juju musician who created Afro-Juju; his albums Ace (1989) and Shinamania (1990) were huge hits.
Shishiliza
Shishiliza, born Sebastian Jameson, is a Zimbabwe-born, Botswana-raised producer and one half of the South African amapiano duo Venom & Shishiliza, who broke out in 2022.
Sia Tolno
Sia Tolno is a Guinean singer and songwriter born in 1975 in Guéckédou, who won the 2011 RFI Découvertes Award and recorded African Woman with Tony Allen.
Simaro Lutumba
Simaro Lutumba (1938–2019) was a Congolese rumba rhythm guitarist and composer nicknamed the Poet, long-serving vice-president of Franco's TPOK Jazz, whom he later led, and composer of 'Mabele' and 'Maya'.
Simigwa
Simigwa is the 1975 debut album by Ghanaian highlife musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, fusing highlife with funk and rap-like vocals, and often cited among the earliest commercial rap recordings.
Singeli
Singeli is an ultra-fast Tanzanian electronic music genre from the working-class neighborhoods of Dar es Salaam, built on looping beats and rapid-fire Swahili lyrics at 180 to 300 BPM.
Sir Trill
Sir Trill is a South African amapiano vocalist, songwriter, and producer who rose to prominence in 2021 on hits such as 'Banyana', 'John Wick', and 'Yini Sdakwa'.
Sjava
Sjava, born Jabulani Hadebe, is a South African rapper-singer from Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal, who performs almost entirely in isiZulu, fusing hip hop, R&B, and maskandi, and won a 2018 BET Award.
Sona Jobarteh
Sona Jobarteh is a Gambian-British kora player, singer, and composer, the first woman from a griot family to master the 21-stringed kora, and founder of The Gambia Academy.
Sony Music Entertainment Africa (record label)
Sony Music Entertainment Africa, also called Sony Music Africa, is Sony Music's African division, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, and operating in West and East Africa since 1995.
Soraia Ramos
Soraia Ramos is a Cape Verdean singer and songwriter, born in Portugal to Cape Verdean parents, whose kizomba and R&B hits include "Bai" (2019) and "BKBN" (2022).