Amapiano
11 Mar
All roads lead to the Caribbean waterside spot, Bolivar, in Lagos, on Saturday, March 25, as the maiden edition of the Amapiano Left and Right series debuts.
25 Dec
Since the explosion of the ‘Amapiano’ sound, there’s been a lot of acceptance across the globe and South African artistes have been passed the baton to push this hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music characterised by synths and wide percussive basslines. One of South Africa’s young talents with a fast-growing international audience is…
25 Jun 2022
Fast-rising musician and songwriter, Adebayo Akintunde Ademola, popularly known by his stage name 'Oziium', had said he is ready to dominate the music scene with full force as he drops
1 Jun 2022
Amapiano is blending with local music scenes around the world to create a haven for reinterpretation and the exchange of cultures. The hybrid of house, jazz and lounge music is sweeping the globe and this week takes centre stage in Spotify: Music That Moves, a new content series which will tell stories about locally grown…
4 May 2022
From all indications, the promising act, DJ Uchenna Kingsley Onyeze, popularly known as DJ UK, is carving a niche for himself in the music
24 Mar 2022
Manchester United's Paul Pogba, fresh from a haircut, rhythmically juts out his chin to the catchy sounds of amapiano -- the South African music that has catapulted across the world. "Ameno", the song in Pogba's clip, has 10 billion views on TikTok alone, powered by dance challenges that Shaquille O’Neal, Janet Jackson and Shakira couldn't…
14 Dec 2021
The year 2021 has been a year of many wins musically. Despite the pandemic, which grappled the world for close to two years now, music is one thing that united us all. Our eardrums have felt the pulsation from Afrobeat to the Amapiano whistles, not forgetting every other sound that we grooved to throughout the…
11 Dec 2021
With the whole continent currently listening to Amapiano music, ace sound whiz DJ Lambo, as well as Dr. Caise, have both become the latest flag-bearers of the South African Amapiano genre
25 Sep 2021
When you think of groovy African rhythms from voices like Niniola, one is likely to unconsciously burst into dance moves. That is the near-hypnotic effect of the South African native genre...
6 Aug 2021
Following her collaboration with Busiswa and the success of Overdose which featured Oxlade, Afro-fusion singer Dunnie is back with a new single titled Mosafejo. Written by Dunnie, the amapiano record is an expression about seeking love elsewhere but finding it right where you were running from. 2021 has been an interesting year for the artist-producer…
6 May 2021
Amapiano (Zulu for "the pianos") is a South African house music genre that began in 2012. Synths, airy pads, and big and percussive bass lines define Amapiano, a fusion of deep house, jazz, and lounge music. High-pitched piano chords, Kwaito basslines, low-tempo South African house rhythms from the 1990s, and percussion from another local subgenre…
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