How ‘Amapiano’, South Africa’s soulful sound, has become one of the hottest new music genres By Daryl Brown , CNN 6 minute read ...

With its distinct log drum, the South African invention is a blend of deep house, kwaito, jazz, and lounge music. In Zulu, Amapiano literally means “the pianos”. You can watch the full This Is ...

Amapiano, which emerged in South African music in the mid-2010s, is a house music subgenre that is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music and is distinguished by synths and wide percussive ...

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The South African singer brought a homegrown genre, amapiano, to new ears with a viral hit and a Grammy. With her debut album, she wants to prove the world is ready for a full-blown African pop star.

The decorated genre is hailed as a hybrid of deep house, jazz and lounge music ... but Foca aka Pritori Maradona turned out to be a lighthouse for South African music that had been ...

It may have started in “The Warehouse” club, Chicago, but the center of the house music world has relocated. Today the biggest house market per capita anywhere in the world is South Africa.

This July and August, Carnegie Hall's critically-acclaimed national youth jazz orchestra—NYO Jazz—will return for its seventh season of extraordinary music-making, highlighted by its concert ...

Amapiano, which emerged in South African music in the mid-2010s, is a house music subgenre that is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music and is Hausa Edition Podcast ...