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Soulistic Music (Black Coffee)
Soulistic Music is a South African record label founded in Johannesburg in 2005 by DJ and producer Black Coffee, releasing his albums and other house artists.
Soundcity TV
Soundcity TV, also known as Soundcity Africa, is a Lagos-based pan-African urban music and lifestyle channel owned by Consolidated Media Associates, broadcasting around the clock across Africa.
South African Hip Hop Awards
The South African Hip Hop Awards, also known as the SA Hip Hop Awards, are an annual ceremony honoring South African hip hop, first held in 2012.
Speroach Beatz
Speroach Beatz, born Prosper Obi, is a Nigerian record producer from Gboko, Benue State, known for producing Davido's 'Assurance' and 'Risky' as a DMW in-house producer.
Spice Diana
Spice Diana, born Namukwaya Hajara Diana, is a Ugandan R&B and pop singer who broke through in 2014 with "Onsanula" and sings in Luganda, English, and Swahili.
Sponono (song)
Sponono is a 2020 amapiano song by South African producer Kabza De Small featuring Wizkid, Burna Boy, Cassper Nyovest, and Madumane, from the album I Am The King Of Amapiano.
Ssaru
Ssaru, also known as Ssaru wa Manyaru, is a Kenyan rapper and singer born in 2002 who rose to prominence in gengetone and is widely called the Queen of Gengetone.
Staff Benda Bilili
Staff Benda Bilili are a band of street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo, most of them polio survivors in wheelchairs, who rose to fame through the 2010 documentary Benda Bilili!.
Stay Low
Stay Low is an independent boutique record label and talent management company in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 2020 under Steyn Entertainment, with artists including Priddy Ugly and lordkez.
Stunner
Stunner is the stage name of Desmond Chideme, a Zimbabwean rapper and pioneer of the urban grooves movement, known for the 2006 hit "Rudo Rwemari".
Sudanese pop (modern Sudanese pop)
Sudanese pop, also known as فن الغناء السوداني, is popular music rooted in Khartoum that grew from the golden era of orchestral radio singing led by Mohammed Wardi.
Super Étoile de Dakar
Super Étoile de Dakar is a Senegalese band formed in 1979 by singer Youssou N'Dour after the split of Étoile de Dakar, credited with laying the foundation for mbalax.
Super Rail Band
The Super Rail Band, also known as the Super Rail Band of Bamako, is a Malian dance orchestra founded around 1970 at Bamako's railway station, pioneering electric griot music.
Suspect 95
Suspect 95, the stage name of Guy Ange Emmanuel, is an Ivorian rapper born in 1995 in Abidjan who signed to Def Jam in 2020 and released the album Société Suspecte in 2023.
Swangz Avenue
Swangz Avenue is a Ugandan record label and production house in Kampala, founded in 2008 by producer Benon Mugumbya and home to Azawi, Winnie Nwagi, and Vinka.
Syran Mbenza
Syran Mbenza, born Mingiedi M'Benza in Kinshasa in 1950, is a Congolese guitarist of the Franco school who co-founded Les Quatre Étoiles and Kékélé in Paris.
Taarab
Taarab is a genre of Swahili popular music in which sung poetry is performed with instruments, blending African, Arab, Indian, and European musical elements across East Africa.
Taasu
Taasu, also spelled tassu or tassou, is a Senegambian art of rhythmic spoken poetry in which performers, typically women from griot families, deliver praise and satire over sabar drums.
Taboo Nightclub
Taboo Nightclub was an upmarket nightclub at 24 Central in Sandton, Johannesburg, founded by Chris Coutroulis and closed permanently in July 2022 after 19 years.
Tabu Ley
Tabu Ley Rochereau (1940–2013), born Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu, was a Congolese rumba singer-songwriter who led Orchestre Afrisa International, wrote more than 2,000 songs, and helped turn Congolese rumba into soukous.
Takura
Takura, born Takura Shonhai in 1988 in Masvingo, is a Zimbabwean hip-hop and Afro-pop singer and rapper based in Harare, known for the hit singles 'Zino Irema' and 'MaObama'.
Talehi
Talehi is a 2014 album and song by Ivorian singer, songwriter, and producer Serge Beynaud, whose 16-track coupé-décalé release made him a star after his 2012 debut.
Tam Sir
Tam Sir is an Ivorian beatmaker and artist, born in Abidjan in 1999, known for "Coup du marteau", the unofficial anthem of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
Tamara Dey
Tamara Dey is a Belgian-born, Johannesburg-based South African singer whose kwaito and house career began in 2000 with Brothers of Peace, followed by a decade with Flash Republic.
Tbo Touch
Tbo Touch, born Thabo Molefe, is a South African radio personality and entrepreneur from Sharpeville, Gauteng, known for Metro FM's The Touchdown and for founding the online station Touch HD.
Tcha Tcho
Tcha Tcho, also written tcha-tcho, is the name Congolese singer Koffi Olomidé gave in the early 1990s to his slowed, romantic variant of Congolese rumba and soukous.
Teddy Afro
Teddy Afro (ቴዲ አፍሮ), born Tewodros Kassahun in 1976, is an Ethiopian pop singer whose reggae-infused music made him one of his country's most popular artists.
Tellaman
Tellaman, born Thelumusa Samuel Owen in Durban in 1991, is a South African R&B singer and producer known for the 2019 hit "Whipped" with Shekhinah and Nasty C.
Teni
Teni is the stage name of Teniola Apata, a Nigerian singer and songwriter who broke through in 2018 with the hits "Askamaya", "Case", and "Uyo Meyo".
Teofilo Chantre
Teofilo Chantre (Teófilo Chantre) is a Cape Verdean morna and coladeira singer-songwriter, born in 1964 on São Nicolau, best known as one of Cesária Évora's principal composers.