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Discover and embrace the rhythm of South Africa with Amapiano music, a genre that pulses through the veins of its people. It’s not just a choice of style, but a way of life where each beat is a reflection of one’s soul. The music speaks to the body and the dance flows effortlessly, like second nature. No instructions needed, just let the music guide you in a mesmerising celebration of life.
Amapiano is the word being used to describe South Africa’s fastest-growing electronic-music movement. Emerging around the townships of Pretoria in 2016, Amapiano is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, kwaito and lounge music with distinct synths, airy pads wide basslines and percussions from another subgenre of house called Bacardi. The name was selected to reflect the melodious piano keyboards that underline fast-pace Gqom beats. It is a combination of the Zulu plural article “ama” and the English noun “piano”.
Amapiano is extending its reach beyond South Africa and topping the charts in countries all around the continent and beyond.
Amapiano is the word being used to describe South Africa’s fastest-growing electronic-music movement. Emerging around the townships of Pretoria in 2016, Amapiano is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, kwaito and lounge music with distinct synths, airy pads wide basslines and percussions from another subgenre of house called Bacardi. The name was selected to reflect the melodious piano keyboards that underline fast-pace Gqom beats. It is a combination of the Zulu plural article “ama” and the English noun “piano”.
Amapiano is extending its reach beyond South Africa and topping the charts in countries all around the continent and beyond.
