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Searching: Before the city’s own brand of kwaito even existed, Durban-based Sandy B was already making a name for himself with the release of Amajovi Jovi. Photo: Sandile Ndlovu
AMAJOVI JOVI

Durban kwaito’s Sugarman

Traces of Sandy B’s legacy, punctuated by a 1994 hit, are imprinted on the genre as we know it today

  • Rofhiwa Maneta
6 min read
Coming of age: Drake addresses the complex emotions he has experienced since becoming a father.
BUSTA RHYMES

My child’s father, the distressed hip-hop head

The angst that comes with parenthood is becoming pervasive in the youthful genre

  • Rofhiwa Maneta
6 min read
Energy: Itai Hakim’s music is a yearning for his ancestral home. Photo: Nicholas Rawhani
ITAI HAKIM

Music in search of the way home

For Itai Hakim, it is about knowing where you come from and also to not lose your way in life

  • Rofhiwa Maneta
4 min read
Afrovision: Muzi Mazibuko’s latest work is distinctly bound to the contours of return – to the continent as well as its musical heritage. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
AFROVISION

Muzi finds his way home

The Durban-born musician is now making music on his own terms by bringing the electronic genre into an African future

  • Rofhiwa Maneta
6 min read
Respect: Jackie Queens acts on her belief that women house vocalists need to be recognised and not regarded as afterthoughts. Photo: Tyrone Bradley/Red Bull content pool
BAE ELECTRONICA

The house that women built

Women vocalists are getting the credit they deserve from house vocalist Jackie Queens

  • Rofhiwa Maneta
6 min read