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Harmonize
Harmonize, also known as Konde Boy, is a Tanzanian bongo flava singer born Rajabu Abdul Kahali in 1994, formerly signed to Diamond Platnumz's WCB Wasafi.
Heads and Tales
Heads and Tales is the 2005 debut album of South African rapper ProKid (Linda Mkhize), released on Gallo Record Company and regarded as a classic of kasi rap.
Héritier Watanabe
Héritier Watanabe, real name Héritier Bondongo Kabeya, is a Congolese singer, dancer, and songwriter born in 1982 in Kinshasa. He spent about 16 years in Wenge Musica Maison Mère before going solo in 2015.
HIFA
HIFA, the Harare International Festival of the Arts, is an annual multi-arts festival in Harare, Zimbabwe, founded in 1999 by Manuel Bagorro and once among Africa's largest festivals.
HiPipo Music Awards
The HiPipo Music Awards are annual music prizes organized by Uganda's HiPipo company, decided entirely by public vote, first held in Kampala in 2012 and running annually since.
Hirut Bekele
Hirut Bekele (ሂሩት በቀለ) was an Ethiopian singer, active from 1958 to 1994, who recorded more than 200 songs and spent 35 years with the Police Orchestra in Addis Ababa.
Hitz FM Ghana
Hitz FM (Hitz 103.9 FM) is an Accra-based Ghanaian radio station on 103.9 MHz, owned by Multimedia Group Limited and known for its music and entertainment format.
Horoya Band National
Horoya Band National, also billed as Horoya Band, is a Guinean national orchestra formed in Kankan in 1965, made a national orchestra in 1971 alongside Bembeya Jazz.
Idd Aziz
Idd Aziz is a Kenyan Afro-Fusion and Afro-House musician and songwriter based in Kenya and Norway, who became the first Kenyan artist to perform at Coachella in 2025.
Iftin Band
Iftin Band (Kooxda Iftin) was a Somali funk and R&B group of the 1970s and 1980s, based in Mogadishu and known for its Al-Uruba hotel gigs.
Ihashi Elimhlophe
Ihashi Elimhlophe, the stage name of Bheki Ngcobo meaning "the white horse", is a South African maskandi singer from KwaZulu-Natal who has recorded since the mid-1970s.
Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club
Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club, also known as Nadi Ikhwan Safaa or the Malindi Musical Club, is a taarab orchestra from Stone Town, Zanzibar, founded in 1905.
Inkabi Zezwe
Inkabi Zezwe is a South African music duo formed in 2023 by Sjava and Big Zulu, both from Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal, whose debut album Ukhamba reached 53 million streams in its first year.
Innocent Balume
Innocent Balume, known on stage as Innoss'B, is a Congolese singer and songwriter born in 1997 in Goma, considered a pioneer of the AfroCongo genre, a fusion of Congolese rumba and ndombolo.
Innoss'B
Innoss'B, born Innocent Didace Balume in 1997, is a Congolese singer and dancer from Goma known for his AfroCongo sound and the 2019 hit "Yo Pe".
Iryn Namubiru
Iryn Namubiru, also credited as Irene Namubiru, is a Ugandan pop singer who began in the 1990s, sang in the duo I-Jay, and won the 2011 PAM Artiste of the Year award.
Ismaël Lô
Ismaël Lô, also written Ismaël Lo, is a Senegalese singer, guitarist, and harmonica player born in 1956 in Niger and raised in Rufisque, known for the ballad "Tajabone".
Iyanya
Iyanya (Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk) is a Nigerian singer and songwriter from Calabar who won Project Fame West Africa in 2008 and broke through with 'Kukere' on the 2013 album Desire.
J.Derobie
J.Derobie, born Derick Obuobie Jnr in Yendi, Ghana in 1994, is a Ghanaian dancehall and afrobeats singer whose 2019 single "Poverty" won him two major awards.
Jabu (The Weatherman)
Jabu (The Weatherman), also known as Jabu The Weatherman, is a South African artist on the roster of Ghetto Ruff, an independent South African label known for kwaito.
Jah Prayzah
Jah Prayzah, born Mukudzeyi Mukombe in 1987, is a Zimbabwean Afro-fusion musician and founder of the band Third Generation, known for mbira-driven songs in Shona.
Jan Blohm
Jan Blohm is the stage name of George Harry "Jorrie" Kymdell (born 1978, Kroonstad), a South African Afrikaans blues-rock singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist whose career spans more than two decades.
Jay Bahd
Jay Bahd (born Jackson Kwadwo Bawuah, 1999) is a Ghanaian rapper from Kumasi known for Asakaa drill, his feature on Yaw Tog's "Sore", and his Return of Okomfo Anokye mixtapes.
Jay Sax
Jay Sax, born Nkosinathi Nkosi, is a self-taught South African amapiano saxophonist from Soshanguve near Pretoria who made the saxophone his signature in the genre and released his debut album Tatiana in 2023.
Jazzwrld
Jazzwrld, formerly Jazzworx, is the stage name of Kamohelo Monese, a South African amapiano DJ and producer raised in Carletonville whose 2025 records with vocalist Thukuthela topped charts.
JB Mpiana
JB Mpiana (Jean-Bedel Mpiana wa Tshituka), born 1967 in Kananga, DR Congo, is a Congolese singer and composer who led Wenge Musica, founded Wenge BCBG, and is credited with ndombolo.
Jeliya
Jeliya, also written jaliya, is the hereditary musical and verbal art of the jeli, the oral historians and praise singers of the Mande peoples of West Africa.
Jeremy Loops
Jeremy Loops, born Jeremy Thomas Hewitt in 1984, is a South African modern-folk singer-songwriter from Kommetjie, Cape Town, known for solo loop-pedal shows and albums including Trading Change.
Jeriq
JeriQ, born Jeremiah Chukwuebuka Ani, is a Nigerian rapper who performs in Igbo, known for pioneering Igbo trap and selling out three southeastern stadiums in 2024.
Jesse Jagz
Jesse Jagz (Jesse Garba Abaga, born 1984) is a Nigerian rapper, record producer, and songwriter from Jos, the younger brother of M.I Abaga, who runs the Jagz Nation imprint.