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In the U.S., a South African musical group is spreading Mandela’s message of racial reconciliation and healing while reminding us that the fight for equality in both nations is far from over.
Bafana Bafana winger Mohau Nkota recently linked up with a South African house music hitmaker at his new club's pre-season tour of Spain.
Swazi-born, South African based DJ Uncle Waffles is at the forefront of propelling amapiano — a subgenre of house and South African music — to dancefloors across the world. Her third EP ...
Swazi-born, South African based DJ Uncle Waffles is at the forefront of propelling amapiano — a subgenre of house and South African music — to dancefloors across the world. Her third EP ...
Legendary DJ Oskido announces star-studded line-up for his inaugural ‘Big Day Out’ festival, featuring South Africa's kwaito pioneers and house music royalty.
The latter is a newer sound, tracing back to South Africa’s underground house scene in the mid-2010s. Amapiano is known for its hypnotic jazz-house soundscape.
Indeed, each nomination in the category was an English-language track and was mainly Afrobeats or amapiano, the South African House genre that’s grown increasingly popular over the past several ...
This is one of my favorite South African songs of all time. I have never been able to define what jazz is, so this may not even be “jazz,” but here we are. What this is, is Malombo music.
The needless death of South African jazz trumpeter and flautist Mongezi Feza in 1975 (in London, from untreated pneumonia) moved his friends to express their grief and anger in the studio.
The singer won the first-ever Grammy for African music performance for her sultry, gorgeously sung single “Water." Her debut, self-titled album released in March, could be a strong candidate to ...