Spotify’s Mother of Music Campaign Celebrates the City’s Unmistakable Sound and Culture – Spotify

The image displays the words "MOM DBN" in bold black letters against a gradient background transitioning from red to yellow to blue, reflecting the City’s Sound and vibrant culture.

Over the past six weeks, Spotify’s been in the vibrant city of Durban in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, for our annual Mother of Music (MOM) event. We’ve celebrated the rich creative culture surrounding the Durban-born genre Gqom, along with Amapiano and Kwaito music—uniquely South African genres that have significantly shaped the trajectory of African music at large and captured the attention of fans worldwide.

From Umqhumos (a South African taxi Gqom-blasting…