The revamped SA Music Awards (Samas) categories have set tongues wagging in the music industry. What has irked the purists is the expansion of the definition of the Best Kwaito Album category to ...
Before amapiano we had gqom. What a time it was to be alive. A newer take on kwaito that was interwoven with elements of House music, this genre and its proponents had the nation in a chokehold but ...
‘I pioneered Cape Town gqom’ — 24-year-old Simphiwe Sihawu from Samora Machel in Cape Town took the South African gqom sound to South Korea and the UK all in one year. Sihawu, better known as Mr Thela ...
Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...
The film is named after the taxi drivers who ferry revellers across Durban while pumping out dance music. Italian label Gqom Oh! and Rome-based radio station Crudo Volta have collaborated on a ...
While it looks like gqom is the one genre of music that every Tom, Palesa and Maria claims to be able to do, only a few people can make successful hit songs in the genre and TDK Macassette believes ...
In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...
1height provides daily urban songs to Africans, South Africans in general. We publish hip hop, Amapiano, Gqom Music from top artists both from home and abroad. We do this in our own little way to ...
When Distruction Boyz dropped Omunye in 2017 they solidified the presence of gqom in SA and went on to become one of the most recognisable names but now, the gqom fever has 'died' down but they are ...
For a lot of people over here, Gqom Oh! Is the extent of what they know about gqom but there’s so much more going on. People tend to say, "Good music are those tracks that make you travel without ...
This year marks 27 years since the recording industry of South Africa first celebrated local musicians in the form of the South African Music Awards (Samas). South Africa’s music history goes back ...
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