After an impressive run in the lower half of the 2010s as one of afropop’s rising voices, Dotman took a definitive step towards legacy-building with his 2021 album, Hakuna Matata, a free-wheeling debut that found him tempering his hit-making proficiency with a dedication to making music to soundtrack all sorts of occasions. That gambit paid off across the stretch of the project as he sounded both familiar and renewed, tunnelling into feelings of desire, thanksgiving, and cheerfulness as he stepped away from the fervid pace of his signature street-pop sound.
The next year has seen Dotman…
