{"id":29306,"date":"2021-11-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=29306"},"modified":"2021-11-10T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:27:07","slug":"afrobeats-is-becoming-a-global-sound-why-so-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/afrobeats-is-becoming-a-global-sound-why-so-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrobeats is Becoming A Global Sound: Why So Popular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_98621\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tN6UWr59qo?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cited Link:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/2074060\/afrobeats-an-african-music-genre-goes-global\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/2074060\/afrobeats-an-african-music-genre-goes-global\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Dj Bjay,&nbsp;Afro&nbsp;Soundz Radio&#8217;s Main DJ &amp; Music Director Is Available To Comment On Afrobeats.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beat-heavy, electronic music from Nigeria has been gaining a global fan base and is a point of pride across Africa. It\u2019s also finally helping local artists make real money. But is Afrobeats establishing a path to global domination that other genres can follow, or is an entire continent being reduced to one country\u2019s signature sound?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dj Bjay<\/strong>&nbsp;is&nbsp;Afro&nbsp;Soundz Radio&#8217;s Main Dj &amp; Music Director. He&nbsp;is a Nigerian US based disc jockey born and raised in Nigeria before moving to the U.S in 2007. With a Bachelor in Economics and Information technology, Dj Bjay decided to turn around the table by focusing on what he loves more, his passion, \u201cdisc jockey\u201d. (<a href=\"http:\/\/afrosoundz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">afrosoundz.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DJ BJAY says:<\/strong>&nbsp;Afrobeat is so popular in the Black and Brown communities all over the USA because of its&nbsp;rhythm&nbsp;which is the most universal element of music in the&nbsp;world and it is very easy to adopt. Afrobeat is entertaining and also manifests interesting cultures and history of African&nbsp;rhythms that the rest of the world is yet to discover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AfroSoundz Radio<\/strong>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrosoundz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.afrosoundz.com<\/a>) is a new free streaming music platform. Its mission is to present modern, culturally engaging African music to people all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feature artists on&nbsp;Afro&nbsp;Soundz Radio include: Stonebwoy, Mr. Eazi, Sarkodie, Tiwa Savage, Tems, Diamond Platnumz, Kuami Eugene, Davido, Kizz Daniel, Falz, Wizkid, Naira Marley, Fireboy DML, Burna Boy, Mayorkun, Simi, Yemi Alade, Adekunle Gold, and so many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cited Link:&nbsp;https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/2074060\/afrobeats-an-african-music-genre-goes-global\/ Dj Bjay,&nbsp;Afro&nbsp;Soundz Radio&#8217;s Main DJ &amp; Music Director Is Available To Comment On Afrobeats. The beat-heavy, electronic music from Nigeria has been gaining a global fan base and is a point of pride across Africa. It\u2019s also finally helping local artists make real money. But is Afrobeats establishing a path to global domination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jae","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29307,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29306\/revisions\/29307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}