Black Music Is…
Prince & BeyoncĂ©’s opening performance at the 2004 Grammy Awards may as well have been the opening and closing performance.
With the increasing number of films aimed towards black audiences in the early 1970s, filmmakers realized that they couldn’t turn to Henry Mancini to provide the musical backdrops for these movies.
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.
