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79 relations: African National Congress, Afrikaans, Alpha Blondy, Apartheid, Arthur Mafokate, Bongo Maffin, Boom Shaka, Brenda Fassie, Cape Town, Club Eden, CNN, Coloureds, Contemporary R&B, Dancehall, Danny K, Diplo, Disco, DJ Cleo, Drum machine, EES (rapper), EMI, English language, FHM, Four on the floor (music), Gauteng, Gazza (musician), Gazza Music Productions, Globalization, Hip hop, Hip hop music, Hip house, House music, Johannesburg, Kaffir (racial term), Keith Sweat, Lebo Mathosa, Literal and figurative language, Lucky Dube, Mandoza, Mdu Masilela, Missy Elliott, Mshasho Productions, Music of Namibia, Music of South Africa, Music theory, Namibia, Namibian kwaito, National anthem of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Percussion instrument, ..., Pop music, Rhythm and blues, Sampler (musical instrument), Samuel Ngodji, Sandy B, Sic, Singing, Sony Music, South Africa, South African Broadcasting Corporation, South End Press, Soweto, Sunny Boy (rapper), Synthesizer, Thandiswa Mazwai, The Dogg, TKZee, Township (South Africa), Tsotsitaal and Camtho, UK garage, United Kingdom, United States, Universal Music Group, University of Chicago Press, Warner Music Group, Will Smith, World Peace Party, Zola (musician), Zulu language. Expand index (29 more) »
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party.
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Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
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Alpha Blondy
Alpha Blondy (born Seydou Koné; 1 January 1953 in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast) is a reggae singer and international recording artist.
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Apartheid
Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.
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Arthur Mafokate
Arthur Mafokate is a South African kwaito musician and producer.
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Bongo Maffin
Bongo Maffin is a South African kwaito music group who formed in Cape Town in 1996.
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Boom Shaka
Boom Shaka was a pioneering kwaito music group from South Africa, consisting of Junior Sokhela, Lebo Mathosa, Theo Nhlengethwa and Thembi Seete.
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Brenda Fassie
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie (3 November 1964 – 9 May 2004) was a South African anti-apartheid Afropop singer.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.
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Club Eden
Club Eden was the first electronic dance music club in Africa.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.
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Coloureds
Coloureds (Kleurlinge) are a multiracial ethnic group native to Southern Africa who have ancestry from various populations inhabiting the region, including Khoisan, Bantu speakers, Afrikaners, and sometimes also Austronesians and South Asians.
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Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.
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Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.
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Danny K
Danny K (full name Daniel Koppel, born 8 September 1977) is a South African singer, songwriter, and actor.
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Diplo
Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978), better known by his stage name Diplo, is an American music composer, DJ and record producer based in Los Angeles, California.
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Disco
Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
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DJ Cleo
Tlou Cleopas Monyepao (born 24 December 1979) professionally known as DJ Cleo, is a South African award-winning Kwaito and House producer from Gauteng and the founder of Will Of Steel Productions.
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Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.
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EES (rapper)
EES (also: eesy-ees/EeS/EeS, "Easy Eric Sell") is the stage name of Eric Sell a Namibian German Kwaito artist and rapper.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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FHM
FHM is a defunct monthly men's lifestyle magazine, currently operating solely online.
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Four on the floor (music)
Four-on-the-floor (or four-to-the-floor) is a rhythm pattern used in disco and electronic dance music.
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Gauteng
Gauteng, which means "place of gold", is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
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Gazza (musician)
Lazarus Shiimi, known by his stage name Gazza, is one of the most commercially successful and best selling recording artists in Namibia.
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Gazza Music Productions
Gazza Music Productions, also referred to as GMP Records, simply known as G.M.P., is a Namibian music production label founded by Gazza in 2004.
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Globalization
Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.
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Hip hop
Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
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Hip house
Hip house, also known as rap house or house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and hip hop.
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House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.
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Johannesburg
Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.
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Kaffir (racial term)
Kaffir (alternatively kaffer; originally cafri) is an ethnic slur used to refer to a black person.
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Keith Sweat
Keith Douglas Sweat (born July 22, 1961) is an American R&B and soul, singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, radio personality, and an early figure in the new jack swing musical movement.
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Lebo Mathosa
Lebo Mathosa (16 July 1977 – 23 October 2006) was a popular South African kwaito singer.
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Literal and figurative language
Literal and figurative language is a distinction within some fields of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics.
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Lucky Dube
Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh;, luckydubemusic.com, Retrieved 19 October 2007 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian.
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Mandoza
Mduduzi Edmund Tshabalala (17 January 1978 – 18 September 2016), also known as Mandoza, was a South African kwaito musician.
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Mdu Masilela
M'du Masilela also known as The Godfather or Chomi Yabana, is a living legend in the music industry in South Africa.
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Missy Elliott
Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), better known as Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, is an American rapper, singer, dancer and record producer.
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Mshasho Productions
Mshasho Productions, also referred to as Mshasho Music Productions and Mshasho Records, is a Namibian Independent record label founded by Namibian musician and producer, Martin "The Dogg" Morocky in 2003.
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Music of Namibia
The music of Namibia has a number of folk styles, as well as pop, rock, reggae, jazz, house and hip hop.
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Music of South Africa
The South African music scene includes both popular (jive) and folk forms.
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Music theory
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.
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Namibian kwaito
Nambian Kwaito is a Kwaito which has expanded into Namibia from the neighboring country of South Africa.
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National anthem of South Africa
The current national anthem of South Africa was adopted in 1997 and is a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the 19th century hymn "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" ("God Bless Africa") and the Afrikaans song "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" ("The Call of South Africa"), which was formerly used as the South African national anthem from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s.
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
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Sampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).
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Samuel Ngodji
Tukonjela Haiyambo Ngodji (born January 30, 1984), also known as Samuel Ngondji is a Namibian musician.
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Sandy B
Sandra Barber is a house music and dance music singer from New York City who uses the stage name Sandy B.
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Sic
The Latin adverb sic ("thus", "just as"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written") inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text, complete with any erroneous or archaic spelling, surprising assertion, faulty reasoning, or other matter that might otherwise be taken as an error of transcription.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South African Broadcasting Corporation
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the state broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as 5 television broadcasts to the general public.
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South End Press
South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics.
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Soweto
Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south.
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Sunny Boy (rapper)
Born Sunday Shipushu (born 13 March 1983), well known as Sunny Boy is a Namibian rapper from Ongwediva.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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Thandiswa Mazwai
Thandiswa Mazwai (born 31 March 1976) (Aged 42) is a South African musician, and is also the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bongo Maffin.
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The Dogg
Martin Morocky (born 31 March 1983), known by his stage name as The Dogg, is a Namibian musician.
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TKZee
TKZee is a South African kwaito music group formed by three school friends, Tokollo Tshabalala, Kabelo Mabalane, and Zwai Bala.
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Township (South Africa)
In South Africa, the terms township and location usually refer to the often underdeveloped segregated urban areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid, were reserved for non-whites, namely Indians, Africans and Coloureds.
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Tsotsitaal and Camtho
Tsotsitaals are a variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province (such as Soweto), but also in other agglomerations all over South Africa.
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UK garage
UK garage (also known as UKG) is a genre of electronic music originating from England in the early 1990s.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.
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Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.
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Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter.
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World Peace Party
The World Peace Party was a warehouse rave held in South Africa on Friday, 13 September 1991.
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Zola (musician)
Bonginkosi "Zola" Dlamini (born 24 April 1977 in Soweto, Johannesburg) is a South African musician, poet, actor and presenter.
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Zulu language
Zulu (Zulu: isiZulu) is the language of the Zulu people, with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaito
