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The music of South Africa exhibits a culturally varied musical heritage in conjunction with the multi-ethnic populace.Genres with the greatest international recognition being mbube, isicathamiya, mbaqanga, afrofusion, kwaito, South African pop music, afro house, South African hip hop, Shangaan electro, bacardi house, bolo house, gqom and amapiano.
Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, [1] the album spotlights the music of South Africa. Liner notes were written by Tom Andrews and Rob Allingham, a discographer and music historian specializing in South Africa. [2] Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network, was the producer. [3]
Amapiano is a subgenre of kwaito and house music from South Africa that became popular in and around the mid-2010s. It is a hybrid of deep house, gqom, jazz, soul and lounge music characterized by synths and wide, percussive basslines. The word "amapiano" derives from the IsiZulu word for "pianos".
The song has elevated the South African house genre to some extent, and was released with the idea that music can influence a large demography of people across the African continent. [4] " Khona" won several accolades, including Record of the Year at the 20th South African Music Awards and Song of the Year at the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards .
This list of South African musicians includes notable individual musicians as well as musical ensembles whose members are South African by birth or nationality. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Founded by the Cape Town City Council [1] as the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, the CPO held its inaugural concert on 28 February 1914 in the Cape Town City Hall.This orchestra and its predecessors [2] soon established a reputation both nationally and internationally, with concerts and tours throughout South Africa, [3] the UK, [4] Taiwan, the Canary Islands and the United States.
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"Skokiaan" was originally composed and first recorded as a sax and trumpet instrumental by the "African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia" (the police band of the country now called Zimbabwe) under the leadership of August Musarurwa possibly in 1947 (anthropologist David B. Coplan seems to be the sole source for this date).