Heran Mamo is a Senior R&B/Hip-Hop/Afrobeats Writer at Billboard. She specializes in covering emerging and established stars in R&B, hip-hop, and Afrobeats, while also overseeing Billboard’s African music coverage, highlighting authentic storytelling and diverse voices within the industry. Heran's work has been featured in Yahoo News, Billboard, and the Black Promoters Collective.
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Heran's focus is primarily on entertainment news, particularly within the music industry. Her coverage includes a mix of event coverage, private sector announcements, and press releases related to pop music, R&B, concerts, albums, artists, and music festivals. Given this focus and her high percentage of private sector announcements in her coverage attributes suggests that she may be open to receiving pitches regarding new album releases or artist collaborations.
She seems receptive to covering trending topics such as pop music events like concerts or festivals. If you have information about upcoming events or exclusive insights into the behind-the-scenes details of major releases by popular artists in these genres, it would likely resonate with her interests.
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By: Heran Mamo
Kehlani's "Out the Window" single has arrived.
Durand Bernarr, Kehlani, Ledisi, Chris Brown, Bryson Tiller and Summer Walker also received multiple nods.
By: Heran Mamo
Summer Walker revealed the star-studded list of collaborators on her forthcoming third studio album 'Finally Over It' on Monday (Nov. 10).
By: Heran Mamo
Femme It Forward will be hosting its fourth annual Give Her FlowHERS Gala this month, Billboard can exclusively announce on Tuesday (Nov. 11).
By: Heran Mamo
Tyler, the Creator announced on Friday (Nov. 14) that he will be postponing Camp Flog Gnaw this weekend due to inclement weather in L.A.
By: Katie Atkinson, Hannah Dailey, Kyle Denis, Michael Saponara, Andrew Unterberger, Abby Webster, Denise Warner, Kristin Robinson, Paul Grein, Stephen Daw, Meghan Mahar, Xander Zellner, Eric Renner Brown, Melinda Newman, Jessica Roiz, Joe Lynch
Trending on Billboard We think of the iconicity of our favorite 21st century pop stars mostly in terms of the ways we had for long before: smash
By: Heran Mamo
Mavo tells Billboard about dropping back-to-back superstar collaborations with Wizkid and Davido while finishing his optometry degree.
By: Carl Lamarre, Michael Saponara, Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Kyle Denis, Christopher Claxton, Angel Diaz, Gail Mitchell
‘Tis the season again: to make a list, check it twice (and a couple more times for good measure) and then reveal who are the hottest artists of the year.
By: Angel Diaz, Gail Mitchell, Christopher Claxton, Kyle Denis, Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Carl Lamarre, Michael Saponara
After watching women MCs spar for pole position in hip-hop over the last few years, in June 2024, Billboard put together its first-ever Hottest Female Rappers List.
Here's a complete list of which mystery musician unmasked themselves to reveal the winner at the end of each season of Fox's The Masked Singer.
