In late July, the Blastfest made a major statement under the gaze of Seattle’s Space Needle, one of the most iconic places in a city where Afrobeats continues to grow.
To many people who had been living in Seattle for a significant amount of time, 2019 felt like the year the city was on the cusp of a cultural shift in the art and music space—COVID, unfortunately, put a hold on that. However, after the pandemic, the Afrobeats scene in Seattle Washington started growing, due to the influx of Africans moving to the city for tech companies…
