Hello Hivians!

It's time for another Music Encyclopedia post from @HMVF. Exploring the awesome music communities and projects on Hive.

Our goal with this post series is to give you all relevant information about what´s going on with music on Hive. No matter if you are a musician or music lover.

It will give you insights into a various number of topics:

• Music Communities
• Music Exposure
• Music Services
• Music Contests

Any more interesting topics? Drop us a hint!

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CATEGORY - Music Communities

Today's post looks into the Afri-tunes community. This Hive community aims to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes. The Afri-Tunes community feature a wide range of styles, some unique to Africa, including Highlife, Makossa, Soukous, Sebene, Fuji, Juju, Ogené, Afro-beat, Apala, Palm Wine Groove and many others!

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OVERVIEW - Afri-Tunes

The Afri-Tunes community is one of the biggest Niche Music communities on Hive, gathering support from many great artists and community members. The Afri-tunes community brings weekly events to further advance users' exposure to a wider Hive audience. Together with the support of the main music communities on Hive, as well as ReggaeJAHM and Beatzchain, Afri-Tunes has a great curation team and Music involvement within Hive.

Afri-Tunes brings an African Twist to the typical music scene on Hive. Giving African-inspired music a place to shine! This community has built on success after success over the last couple of years, highlighting some of the best Afri-tunes on Hive from some brilliant artists!

Featuring weekly activities to encourage engagement and exposure to the best Afri-tunes, the community shares joy and love worldwide! There's a weekly celebration of African Music on hive so you'll never be short of opportunities to share and find the tunes you love! Check out the latest week's event here.

There are also prizes connected to this, so you have another chance to earn with your african music.

Interesting to mention in this context is also the Afri Vocal Institute. This is an initiative by @obaro to help people train their voice and singing. He shares lots of tipps and excersises around this topic and it´s definitely worth a look!, Here is the introdcution video of the Institute.

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SUMMARY

The Afri-Tunes community is the place to be for African inspired music. Featuring a wide range of sounds and styles. Find the music you love and share your music with others inspired by your niche. Utilising the power of 3speak users are able to share and engage to maximise their exposure on Hive.

Check out the summary of last weeks top picks and find out how you can participate in future community based voting for the best Afri-tunes artist each week here.

• Main accounts - @afri-tunes
• Community (Hive-195772)

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We are searching for more artists and projects to interview and promote. If you create original music (or know someone that does) get in touch and let’s set up an interview. We love music and want to see it grow on HIVE. Be a part of the future of Hive music! 🎵

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