On the streets of Los Angeles the city seen by many as the entertainment capital of the a billboard of a Somali band is and the message on it is attracting passers by. On it is an image of Wayaaha ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Lihle Muhdin was 11 years old when he first picked up a Kalashnikov rifle, pushed into combat by an Islamist militia in Mogadishu. That was 15 years ago. Now he wields a ...

The Somali capital of Mogadishu is set to host its biggest music festival in over two decades The Mogadishu Music Festival is aiming to rally would-be fighters to peacefully resist extremism The ...

One of the most prominent musical personalities in Minnesota’s Somali community, Salaad Darbi, will be honored at a concert on Nov. 22 in Golden Valley.

Falis Abdi Mohamed, a 26-year-old singer and member of the Nairobi-based Somali hip-hop group Waayaha Cusub, returned to Somalia in March to perform in a series of small concerts for peace as part of ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 11 (UNHCR) - A group of Somali refugee musicians in the Kenyan capital Nairobi have ruffled a few feathers with their flouting of conservative traditions and their songs on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Upon entering a tiny recording studio in a grimy Nairobi building, Felis removes her face veil, slides headphones onto her ears and ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Fueled by the high-volume music and fast-talking rappers, the Somali crowd danced, shouted and sang. Mogadishu’s first music festival in decades acted as another step in moving ...