From the Streets of Akure to Global Playlists: How AYOX Is Carrying the Afrobeat Torch Into a Bold New Era – The Source Magazine

There’s a movement happening in the soundscape of global music—and its name is Afrobeat. Once a distinctly Nigerian pulse, today it’s a cultural lifeline resonating from Lagos to Los Angeles, Accra to Amsterdam. While pioneers like Fela Kuti laid the ideological foundation, modern torchbearers like Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, and Rema have cracked open the global stage. And now, standing at the intersection of reverence and revolution, is a young artist from Akure who’s becoming impossible to ignore: AYOX.

AYOX—born…