Africa’s premier music business school “Music Business Academy for Africa” has partnered with the music distribution company and a subsidiary of Sony Music “The Orchard” for its “MBA Talent Project”.  Applicants eligible for this open call must be completely unsigned from any record label distribution or managerial deal. Talents must be between the ages of 17-30 years. The MBA Talent project is open to artists...

Sam Ostler’s new single, “Lights,” then. It unfolds less like a sudden, intrusive glare and more like the slow, determined burn of a really good stage light finally finding its mark after a prolonged blackout. It’s pop, yes, vibrant and undeniably contemporary as advertised – clean lines, clear intentions. Yet, there’s a certain satisfying heft beneath the melodic uplift, a feeling that these notes...