Spotify: For the Record Podcast Spotlights Fast-Growing African Music Scene
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2 min readApr 9, 2021
Following up on Spotify’s recent, buzzy launch into 39 African markets, announced during its Stream On event on February 22, this week’s episode of For The Record (titled “Afropop to Amapiano: African Music Ignites”) takes listeners across the continent from Ghana to Kenya, spotlighting the diverse cultures and sounds of a musical hotbed for expanding genres like Amapiano and Gengetone, and popular collaborations between African artists and mainstream Western stars.