Lekan Babalola was born to Yoruba parents and raised in Nigeria. He moved to England in the late 1980s, studying film at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Northern School of Film and Television. He is a professional musician, filmmaker and curator. Lekan, Olalekan Babalola, moved to Dorset in 2005.

Ali Ibrahim "Farka" Touré (Kanau, 1939 - Bamako, 7 de marzo de 2006), fue un conocido guitarrista y cantante maliense, cuyo estilo aunaba la música tradicional de Malí con el blues

Natural de Benin esta artista ha sido galardonada con premios internacionales como los Grammy. Conocida por su dinámica y música selecta en la que ha traducido en su obra un carácter distintivo promoviendo la educación de las niñas en África a través de su fundación, Batonga y como embajador de Buena Voluntad de UNICEF. Kidjo viaja por el mundo para inspirar y motivar.

Zimbabwe's Thomas Mapfumo started out with a fairly simple musical idea of taking traditional mbira tunes and updating them for electric guitars, bass, and drums, but the extraordinary times in which he did this, which just happened to be when the people of what was then called Rhodesia were engaged in a war to throw off the strictures of colonialism, made his songs, full of Shona folk sayings and proverbs, reverberate with even more powerful meanings, and Mapfumo played a tangible role through his music in the eventual creation of an independent Zimbabwe.

In addition to being one of contemporary jazz's top indie labels, Heads Up International has delved brilliantly into the vast riches of African music these past years, bringing masters from that continent to a greater stateside awareness via its Heads Up Africa series. South Africa has gotten most of the attention over the years, but as singer, guitarist, and socially conscious composer Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi shows, Zimbabwe has music equally as compelling, vibrant, and rhythmic.

An early contemporary of Miriam Makeba, Dorothy Masuka was part of the 1950s South African "jive" scene, mixing American-style group vocals and swing beats with local melodic and harmonic styles. She's best known as the author of the song, "Pata Pata," which was one of Makeba's earliest and biggest international hits. Like Makeba, Masuka found herself in exile in the early 1960s, as the campaign against apartheid intensified, and artists seen as sympathetic to the African National Congress were proscribed and placed under threat of arrest.

Aquí encontramos un buen número de cantos antiguos de medej, en árabe clásico, que nos hablan de las inquietudes espirituales del ser humano. Vienen de lejos y los saharauis acuden a ellos para solazarse. También hay composiciones nuevas de medej, respetando sus reglas, en su mayoría obra de Baba Salama, guitarrista con muchos recursos que posee un conocimiento profundo del haul.

Gnawa (transcrito también como gnaua, gnaoua, guennaua, etc.) es el nombre que reciben en Marruecos y otros lugares del Mágreb los miembros de una serie de cofradías cofradías místicas musulmanas caracterizadas por su origen subsahariano y por el uso de cantos, danzas y rituales sincréticos como medios para llegar al trance. El término se refiere también al estilo musical de reminiscencias subsaharianas practicado por estas cofradías o por músicos que se inspiran en ellas. Es uno de los géneros principales del folklore de Marruecos.

In the production Soleil Bantu Biboul reveals his past from his childhood in Cameroon, Africa to the present as a professional musician in Europe. The product is able to portray the depth of his musical talent, where Afro-Rhythms are mixed with Jazz and avantgarde sounds. The lyrics and raps of Soleil Bantu tell us about the reality of Africa, about love, friendship and loneliness. For this production, Biboul worked with musicians from Germany, USA, Cameroon, Columbia and Spain.