Key notes: DJ Stokie’s 2019 hit ‘Piano Vibe’ with De Mthuda is a fine example of amapiano. Photo: Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images
As someone who loves exploring new music, my entry point for amapiano was actually deep house — which isn’t surprising, seeing amapiano is widely regarded as the child of house music and kwaito.
In the mid-2010s, I started to hear more and more deep house music when my wife and I visited her family home in Soshanguve, outside Pretoria. There was something happening there — what was emerging was a…
