Champion Sound: Meet the people behind Atlanta’s Afrobeats & Amapiano scene – The Atlanta Voice

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Three people in fashionable clothing and sunglasses stand on a wooden deck with greenery in the background, exuding vibes worthy of the Amapiano scene.

There’s an inevitability when it comes to the sounds of afrobeats and amapiano music. As the upbeat rhythms, energetic melodies, signature drum beats, and inventive productions command a speaker’s sound waves, the sounds born out of West and South Africa have the power to create a bubble of magic in a matter of seconds. That magic is felt in every lyric or shout of joy bursting through lips. Every point toward the sky or a friend. And every bounce and shake of the shoulders down to the soles of the feet.

What were once just…