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Overview of the events of 2021 in African music
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The following is a list of events and releases that happened in 2021 in African music .
Events
Albums released in 2021
Musical films
Deaths
January 8 –
Dorine Mokha , 31, Congolese dancer and choreographer (malaria)
[26]
January 22 –
Guem , 73, Algerian singer, composer and dancer.
[27]
January 23
January 28 –
Sibongile Khumalo , 63, South African singer
[30]
January 31 –
Wambali Mkandawire (Mtebeti Wambali Mkandawire ), 68, Malawian
jazz singer and activist.
[31]
February 5 –
Abdoul Jabbar , 40–41, Guinean singer-songwriter
[32]
February 16 –
Soul Jah Love , 31, Zimbabwean reggae/
Zimdancehall musician (complications from diabetes)
[33]
March 7 –
Josky Kiambukuta , 72,
Congolese singer (
TPOK Jazz ).
[34]
March 14 –
Thione Seck , 66, Senegalese
mbalakh singer and musician
[35]
April 5 –
Haja El Hamdaouia , 91, Moroccan singer and songwriter, known for
Chaabi and
Aita
[36]
April 18 –
Naïma Ababsa , 51, Algerian singer
[37]
April 27 –
Sammy Kasule , 69, Ugandan musician and singer
[38]
May 7 –
Jamal Salameh , 75, Egyptian songwriter and composer
June 21 –
Mamady Keïta , 70, Guinean drummer
[39]
June 22 –
Mzilikazi Khumalo , 89, South African composer and academic
[40]
June 25 –
Wes Madiko , 57, Cameroonian singer
[41]
July 1 –
Steve Kekana , 63, South African singer
[42]
July 11 –
Sound Sultan (Olanrewaju Abdul-Ganiu Fasasi), 44, Nigerian rapper and hip hop pioneer (
angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma )
[43]
August 3 –
Allan Stephenson , 71, British-born South African cellist, conductor and composer
[44]
August 9 (killed in car crash)
Khanya "The Voice" Hadebe, 20s, South African
amapiano musician
[45]
Killer Kau , 23, South African amapiano musician
Mpura , 20s South African amapiano musician
August 28 –
Victor Uwaifo , 80, Nigerian ogbonge musician and cultural figure
[46]
August 31 –
Nobesuthu Mbadu , 76, South African mbaqanga singer
[47]
September 2 –
Alemayehu Eshete , 80, Ethiopian singer
[48]
September 28 –
Nana Ampadu , 76, Ghanaian musician
[49]
October 3 –
Anouman Brou Félix , 86, Ivorian Akyé musician
[50]
October 8 –
Rabah Driassa , 87, Algerian artist and folk singer
[51]
November 7 –
Bopol Mansiamina , 72, Congolese guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer
[52]
November 17 –
Theuns Jordaan , 50, South African singer-songwriter (leukaemia)
[53]
December 27 –
Defao , 62,
Congolese singer-songwriter, COVID-19.
[54]
See also
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