I know somehow you've all heard about afrobeat and it's recent rave on taking over to the global stage from Africa which is it's origin and Nigeria being the sole owners of the genre. Afrobeat has been a long standing genre which was brought to bear by the Late Fela Kuti. Until now, music in Africa and Nigeria was made mostly for local consumption which still because of its uniqueness and greatness still got accepted into the global scene with the likes of Fela Kuti , King sunny ade, Ebenezer obey etc. These people made timeless music which were all classics and still played in homes till date. The greats earlier mentioned, through the success of their music got Grammy nominations. Though they didn't win, but it helped shaped the face of afrobeat. Music in Africa is amazing because asides afrobeat, South Africans got a major sound called the "amapiano" which got songs like Jerusalema by Master KG and even big records like John Cena etc. Until now, afrobeat has been made for both local, and few international audience until the emersion of great afrobeat artists as Don jazzy, D banj, 2baba, wizkid, Davido, Burnaboy. These names mentioned took afrobeat to another level. Especially the major path creation for global domination was made by dbanj, Don jazzy, 2baba . This made it possible for great minds such as wizkid, Davido, Burnaboy who is a Grammy winner to take it to the world and make it known. Alot of artists such as Justin Bieber, Drake, 6black, Jorja Smith, diamond, Beyonce, Rihanna have worked with afrobeats artists and it's been great. The beautiful thing about afrobeat is it's fusion, such as afro-trap, Afro -pop etc. This makes afrobeat artists diversify and they are very good.. One of the songs to listen to now is Essence by wizkid ft tems and the album to listen to is Made in Lagos. All these are afrobeat records. Will continue the article soon if y'all are interested
Davido
BurnaBoy
Wizkid
