Spotify honours Black History Month by showcasing black creatives, culture, art and excellence

Black Music. Black Voices. Black Culture. Black History.

This Black History Month, Spotify is launching a full slate of guest-curated playlist takeovers, brand new podcasts and more to highlight black culture, black music and black excellence.

As the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, Spotify continues to highlight and amplify black voices through curating top audio destinations for black music and black culture with playlists like RapCaviar and Feelin’ Myself.

As part of the playlist takeovers for Black History Month, Ghanaian Afro-fusion, R&B singer and songwriter Amaarae will be guest curating the Black to the Future playlist, which features and supports up-and-coming black artists.

As part of her takeover, Amaarae will help capture Afrofuturism – in all its wild, otherworldly musical dimensions.

Amaarae will also be featured on Spotify’s Time Square billboard starting from today.

Additional takeovers and activities are listed below and you can also check out the Black History Is Now Hub for all of this month’s BHM content.

Playlist Cover Art: To showcase the wide spectrum of black talent that pervades not just music, but visual art, Spotify will be licensing photography from seven black photographers to curate cover art for eight playlists – all on a weekly rotation through the month of February.

Black History Salute – Shawn Theodore Black Love Mixtape – Adreinne Waheed

Power to the People – Doug Segars Soul Coffee – Adrian Octavious Walker

The Cook(in) – Black Archives Spread the Gospel – Andre Wagner

Playlists Takeovers: Many of Spotify’s playlists, which can be found in the Black History Is Now hub, will be guest curated by influential Black curators, celebrities, creatives and more:

Black Lives Matter: American Jazz artist, Keyon Harrold Sr and his son, Keyon Harrold Jr, are now using the power of music to further the conversation on injustices by taking over this

playlist in partnership with the organisation, Color of Change.

I Love My HBCU: Celebrate the institutions that educate and uplift as 2Chainz guest curates the popular playlist complete with homecoming anthems.

Black Love Mixtape: Launching on 12 February, ahead of Valentine’s Day, artists Lucky Daye and Ari Lennox will co-curate the new playlist dedicated to celebrating black love.

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