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Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, between the late 1980s and 1990s.It is a variant of house music that features the use of African sounds and samples.
The music genre that the Tofo Tofo dance troupe dances to is called kwaito music, a form of South African house music. This genre started developing in the 1990s. The term kwaito is derived from the Afrikaans word kwaii , which means strict or angry, although in more common and contemporary use the word is a loose translation of the English ...
Amapiano is a subgenre of kwaito and house music that emerged in South Africa in 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".
Kwaito albums (5 C, 2 P) M. Kwaito musicians (19 P) Pages in category "Kwaito" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect ...
The kwaito singer Frank Lesokwane was one of the most successful artists in the early 21st century. [5] Thabo Mapetla Ntirelang is another prominent kwaito artist. Kwaito culture has similarities to hip hop culture. The kwasa-kwasa genre developed in Botswana, based on Congolese kwassa kwassa music. Kwaito kwasa is a fusion genre of kwasa-kwasa ...
Mandoza's music tried to "put a more constructive message into kwaito." [ 10 ] Originally, Mandoza did not like the kwaito style, because of its lack of a message and tendency to focus on dancing and pleasure rather than on the plethora of social problems that exist in South Africa, even after apartheid ended in 1994.
Boom Shaka was a pioneering South African kwaito music group consisting of Junior Sokhela, Lebo Mathosa, Theo Nhlengethwa and Thembi Seete.They released their first single "It's About Time" in 1993, [1] and subsequently released their debut LP, titled "Kwere Kwere" in 1994. [2]
The kwaito genre is the most popular and successful music genre in Namibia. It's believed to be the biggest industry in Namibia's music and the only that is heavily supported by the youth. This is so because of socio-economic issues, as many artists enter the music industry with hopes of strengthening self-employment and making a living out of it.