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The music of Eswatini is composed of both ethnic Swazi music and varieties of folk music as well as modern genres such as rock, pop and hip hop, which has been popular in Eswatini since headed by bands such as Vamoose. The popularity of hip hop in South Africa, which shares a border with Eswatini, has also helped popularize it. Today the music ...
" Nkulunkulu Mnikati wetibusiso temaSwati " [a] is the national anthem of Eswatini. It is a compromise between Swazi and Western styles of music and was adopted after independence in 1968. [1] The lyrics were authored by Andrease Enoke Fanyana Kukies Simelane, and the composer of the tune was David Kenneth Rycroft. [2] [3]
The AfriMusic Song Contest is a pan-African song contest inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.It was first held in 2018, when Eswatini won with singer songwriter Symphony performing her original song "Sengikhona".
Lungelihle Zwane [1] (born 30 March 2000), [2] known professionally as Uncle Waffles, is a Swazi DJ and record producer based in South Africa. [3] She is noted for her work in the amapiano genre and her dance abilities, [4] [5] with Billboard describing her as the "princess of amapiano". [6]
The Swazi are an ethnic group split between South Africa and Eswatini.The Swazis in South Africa became a major part of South African music, though they were not identified as "Swazi musicians", but rather as "South African musicians"; these included Zacks Nkosi, who began in the 1940s as a jazz musician.
In October 2016, she performed at Swazi Gospel Night, with featured gospel artists from all over Eswatini. [4] She is the vocalist for the gospel band Khululugcobo. [4] In 2019, she won Female Artist of the Year, Best Gospel Artist, and Song of the Year, for her single Yebo, at the 3rd annual MTN SWAMA Awards. [5]
Jika reached number 1 on the Apple Music Top 100 Charts for Swaziland, reached Number 1 on the SBIS 2 Top 100 songs of 2017, Number 2 on the Y Urban Top 40 Chart and Number 29 on the #YTop100 songs on 2017 Charts on YFM in South Africa (where the song was placed on heavy rotation), Number 2 on the DJ Edu DNA Top 5 Chart on BBC Radio 1Xtra and ...
"Mine Bengidzakiwe" is a traditional song whose composer is anonymous. The song is still sung in Swaziland's ceremonies. The direct translation of the title is "I was drunk". It concerns a typical African homestead where a husband has two wives. One wife locks the other in a "hut" (traditional kitchen) in the hope of being alone with the husband.