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Ciza, Jazzworx & Thukuthela
Ciza, Jazzworx & Thukuthela are a South African amapiano collaboration formed for the 2025 single "Isaka (6am)", which topped South Africa's songs chart for nine weeks.
Clarence Peters
Clarence Abiodun Peters, known as CAPital, is a Nigerian filmmaker and music video director, founder of CAPital Dreams Pictures, called Africa's leading music-video director by IFFR in 2018.
COCO ARGENTEE
Coco Argentée, born Corine Céline Ntyame in 1982, is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter living in Belgium whose music blends bikutsi, zouk, and drill; she debuted with the album Nostalgie in 2010.
Congolese rumba
Congolese rumba (rumba congolaise) is a genre of guitar-band dance music and couple dance of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, added to UNESCO's heritage list in 2021.
Costa Titch
Costa Titch (Costantinos Tsobanoglou, 1995–2023) was a South African rapper, singer-songwriter, and dancer who fused amapiano with hip hop and trap, known for the hit "Big Flexa".
Couleur Café
Couleur Café is a world and urban music festival in Brussels, founded in 1990 and held each summer since 2017 in Osseghem Park at the foot of the Atomium.
D'Prince
D'Prince, born Charles Enebeli in 1986, is a Nigerian Afrobeats singer and record executive, brother of Don Jazzy, who founded Jonzing World and signed Rema in 2019.
Daddy Lumba
Daddy Lumba, born Charles Kwadwo Fosu, was a Ghanaian highlife singer, songwriter, and producer (1964–2025) who released 33 albums and redefined modern highlife with synthesizer-driven sounds.
DaKAR II
DaKAR II is a 2016 double album by South African rapper Kwesta, whose hit single "Ngud'" with Cassper Nyovest helped it become the best-selling South African hip hop album.
Dama do Bling
Dama do Bling (Ivânnea da Silva Mudanisse, born 1979) is a Mozambican rapper and singer, called the Queen of Hip-Hop of Mozambique, active from the mid-2000s.
Darassa
Darassa, born Shariff Thabit Ramadhan in 1988, is a Tanzanian rapper and singer in hip-hop and Bongo Flava, known for the 2016 hit "Muziki" with Ben Pol.
Dawit Mellesse
Dawit Mellesse (ዳዊት መለሰ), also spelled Dawit Melesse, is an Ethiopian Amharic pop singer based in Addis Ababa whose career began with the 1991 album Alchalkum and continued with Mistir in 2025.
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater, born Denise Eileen Garrett, is an American jazz singer and actress from Memphis whose Grammy Awards and 1975 Tony Award anchor a six-decade career.
Deep London
Deep London is the stage name of Lita Kupelo, a South African amapiano producer and DJ from East London, best known for the 2022 hit "Hamba Wena".
Dele Abiodun
Admiral Dele Abiodun, born Prince Cyril Bamidele Abiodun Alele in 1948, is a Nigerian juju bandleader who created the Adawa style, led the Top Hitters Band, and headed PMAN.
Dembe FM
Dembe FM is a Luganda-language commercial radio station on 90.4 FM in Kampala, Uganda, launched in 2002, closed in 2023, and relaunched in 2025 by Nation Media Group.
Detty December
Detty December is the annual party season from December into early January, when diaspora visitors flock to Lagos and Accra for concerts and beach events.
Deux Vultures
Deux Vultures were a Kenyan rap duo made up of Nasty Thomas and Colonel Mustapha, formed in 2002 and known for the hit 'Monalisa' and the 2004 songs 'Kinyaunyau' and 'Adhiambo C'.
Dez Altino
Dez Altino, born Tiga Wendwaoga Désiré Ouédraogo in 1978, is a Burkinabè singer and self-producer known as "le prince national" who fuses Mossi rhythms with reggae and urban pop.
Dhow Countries Music Academy
The Dhow Countries Music Academy is a nonprofit music school in Stone Town, Zanzibar, founded in 2002 as Zanzibar's first music school and dedicated to teaching taarab.
Di'Ja
Di'Ja (Hadiza Blell) is a Nigerian-Sierra Leonean singer and songwriter who joined Don Jazzy's Mavin Records in 2014 and featured on the hit "Dorobucci", later releasing music independently.
Dimi Mint Abba
Dimi Mint Abba (born Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba, 1958–2011) was a Mauritanian griot singer and ardin player known as the "diva of the desert".
Dina Bell
Dina Bell, born Charles Dina Ebongué in 1953 in Douala, Cameroon, is a makossa singer who broke through in 1978 with the gold-record Yoma Yoma.
DJ Christos
DJ Christos (Christos Katsaitis) is a South African house DJ and producer who started DJing in 1988, is widely called the country's "Godfather of House", and co-founded Kalawa Jazmee Records.
DJ Cleo
DJ Cleo, born Cleopas Monyepao in 1979, is a South African house and kwaito DJ, producer, and songwriter who founded the label Will of Steel Productions.
DJ Dimplez
DJ Dimplez, born Boitumelo Athiel Mooi and known as Tumi Mooi, was a South African hip-hop DJ who founded the Pop Bottles event and died in 2022.
DJ Marfox
DJ Marfox, born Marlon Silva in 1988, is a Lisbon-based DJ and producer of batida, a percussion-driven club style grown from Angolan kuduro in the city's outskirts.
DJ Pausas
DJ Pausas is a Lisbon-based kuduro and batida producer and DJ, a founding member of DJs Di Guetto, whose 2006 compilation DJs do Guetto Vol. 1 launched the Lisbon batida scene.
DJ Sabby
DJ Sabby, born Sabelo Mtshali, is a South African radio DJ and television presenter who has hosted Metro FM's breakfast show Best Mornings since 2023, after a decade at YFM.
DJ Shimza
DJ Shimza, real name Ashley Raphala, is a South African Afro-house and Afro-tech DJ and producer from Tembisa, known for his annual One Man Show charity event.