South Africa’s first lady of house music, Zinhle Jiyane, known behind the decks as DJ Zinhle, talks AfriPOP! on breaking through the ‘female DJ box’ and rocking the world’s good time capital, Miami. Signed to South Africa’s premier dance music label Kalawa Jazzmee, her set in Miami has lead to an international record deal. Your track, ‘My Name Is’ rocked Miami. What did that feel like? Did you produce the [...]
Last I spoke to Mpho Skeef she had an independently released EP called Documented in the cut. For three whole years to have passed and for there to be this much buzz upon her return is unheard of. Clearly it was time away well spent for the 33-year-old who got hitched, popped a second child and got on with constructing POP Art, her debut disc, which is one out of [...]
“We keep hyenas and we love our AK…” This is Africa as rhymed by Afrikan Boy (and K’Naan at the end) While you await our forthcoming interview with the self-proclaimed eba-eater, get a load of this twist on T.I.A.
Cape Town electro/pop/rock act Yesterday’s Pupil recorded What We Seek for his album Errors of Enthusiasm. Later he brought in Poet/MC Tumi (of the Volume) to murder it. This. is.the remix…
And now here’s Mpho Skeef’s video for the single Box N Locks. We only hope this means that there really is an album on the way after all these years. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDfLBY6PJrQ]
The beautiful Nigerian-Romanian songstress is performing at SOB’s tonight, alongside Dwele. Ayo rocks on the simple fact that she’s carving her own tracks, merging the old with the new . She is part of an exciting crop of singers who show that the term “African music” means many things these days. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYzrYXRGWkU&feature=related] And can we really forget to shout out Dwele, whose soulful sounds have inspired many an African. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXeXT6FGEls&NR=1] [...]
