On her new CD, Time, Shakura S’Aida’s powerful voice is backed by a cast of phenomenal musicians — Brooke Blackburn, Alison Young, Kenny “Bluesboss” Wayne, Shamaka Ali, and Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo, just to name a few. They match her energy and intensity note for note.

Any attempts to place creative limits onJay Douglas, the Jamaican-born, Toronto based recording artist and 2012 Harry Jerome Award recipient are futile. The dynamic performer’s musical landscape knows no boundaries.

Four-time Juno award winner, Kardinal Offishall will be a guest speaker for the conference portion of this year’s Toronto International Music Summit, taking place at the Royal York Hotel on May 26, 2012

With a regal presence on stage that belies her diminutive stature, Malian singer Khaira Arby wowed the crowd at Lula Lounge in Toronto on May 8th with a long set of her own brand of jazzy Saharan music.

That’s What She Said: Sway’s online recap of this week’s current events by Darling Nicky.

June 9, 2012 will mark the third time that AfroChic will bring together artists of different disciplines to celebrate and highlight the African diaspora. “We want to explore different layers of our community,” says co-founder Amoye Henry.

It was not inevitable to everyone that Whitney Houston was going to die. Many of us expected her to make a comeback and her death came as a shock. Sway takes a deeper look into the cause of the icon’s death.

That’s What She Said: Sway’s Online Recap of Current Events. “Since the turn of the millennium (Geez I’ve always wanted to say that!), unisex names (along with fruit names like “Apple”, clothing names like “Denim” and number names like “Seven”) have become all the rage.”

Lisa Berry is one of Canada’s hottest rising stars, most recently heating things up in the boardroom as Zoe Figgis on NBC’s newest legal drama, The Firm. Sway spends some time with this talented performer from Richmond Hill, Ont. and finds out about her passion for music.

Many North Americans may not know the story of the music genre lovers rock, also a cultural movement that grew in the United Kingdom from the late 1970s and throughout the ’80s.