Musicians have paid tribute to singer Roger Charlery, known as Ranking Roger, who has died aged 56. The Birmingham-born star, best known as a vocalist with The Beat, died at home on Tuesday, surrounded by family, a statement on the band’s website said. Charlery had suffered a stroke last summer and was reported to have been diagnosed with two brain …

The grandfather of musician M.anifest, Professor Emeritus Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia has kicked the bucket at the age of 97. According to Asempanews, the Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer died at the Legon Hospital in Accra, Wednesday, March 13, after short illness. Kwabena Nketia was born (June 22, 1921) at Mampong, then a little town in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. …