Black Music Is…

Marvin Isley, bass player for the legendary Isley Brothers, died June 6th from complications of diabetes at 56.

Prince & Beyoncé’s opening performance at the 2004 Grammy Awards may as well have been the opening and closing performance.

Though it can be said that Afrobeat never died, in recent years its seen levels of exposure that would’ve seemed unheard of when the genre was first created in the 1960s.