Afropop Live! NYC, Musical Metropolis

What do you get when you combine Congolese rapper Baloji, Lebanese pop star Yasmine Hamdan, Jamaican guitarist Brushy One-String, and Mauritanian vocal powerhouse Noura Mint Seymali? This year’s jaw-dropping Globalfest. What do you get when you combine live recordings of these artists with backstage interviews, intimate hotel-room performances, exclusive club recordings, and more? You get this week’s show. Afropop Live!

Featured Artists 

Podcast- Brushy One-String: Music and Single Vibrating Wire 

APAP_Day3_globalFEST-62 (1)

What do you get when you combine Congolese rapper Baloji, Lebanese pop star Yasmine Hamdan, Jamaican guitarist Brushy One-String, and Mauritanian vocal powerhouse Noura Mint Seymali? This year’s jaw-dropping Globalfest. What do you get when you combine live recordings of these artists with backstage interviews, intimate hotel-room performances, exclusive club recordings, and more? You get this week’s show. Afropop Live!

Featured Artists 

Podcast- Brushy One-String: Music and Single Vibrating Wire 

APAP_Day3_globalFEST-62 (1)

Support independent news and 3x your impact!

The World is an independent newsroom. We’re not funded by billionaires; instead, we rely on readers and listeners like you. As a listener, you’re a crucial part of our team and our global community. If you’ve been thinking about making a donation, this is the best time to do it. Your support is vital to running our nonprofit newsroom, and we can’t do this work without you. All donations between now and June 30 will be matched 2:1. Will you help keep our newsroom on strong footing by giving to The World?