DJ Poizen and Chymamusique were involved in a car accident. Online users mourned one of the DJs who died in the car accident, while the other landed in the ICU.

The South African Afro-house music duo Black Motion received the most nominations for the 2025 South African Music Awards (SAMA), followed by Thandiswa Mazwai. The Recording Industry of South Africa ...

You’re one of Africa’s most celebrated Electronic and Dance music producers and DJs. You are a champion in the Afro-House scene in South Africa. What has it been like from the start of your ...

Their music is an atlas of homegrown South African genres —gqom, kwaito, Afrohouse — all meshed with western genres like hip-hop, house and EDM.

“Water,” a blissfully catchy combination of pop, hip-hop, R&B and Amapiano (South African house music), initially dropped in July. Since then, the song garnered massive popularity on TikTok ...

This intensity is no accident and may have another source of inspiration beyond the obvious romantic bliss: Since the release ...

The weekly event, formed in 2022, uses amapiano (a jazzy subgenre of South African house music) as a gateway to connect Atlanta audiences to the African diaspora.

Legendary DJ Oskido announces star-studded line-up for his inaugural ‘Big Day Out’ festival, featuring South Africa's kwaito pioneers and house music royalty.

Even during the pandemic, amapiano, a bright, jazzy dance music culled from local house flavors and global R&B, has persisted as the country’s top genre, according to prominent South African ...

Kelefa Sanneh writes about the popular South African dance-music genre amapiano and some of the artists who strive to expand its audience.

DJs such as Vigro Deep and DBN Gogo are bringing the deep house, log-drum driven basslines and soulful piano melodies of “Amapiano” to the world.