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Victony and Tempoe released the video for "Soweto" in October 2022. The video was directed by Jyde Ajala and garnered over 8 million views on YouTube within four weeks. A second video was released for the remix. [4] The song featured at number 15 on Rolling Stone magazine's "Top 40 Afropop Songs of 2022". [5]
The official full length music video was released on 14 November 2019; 5 years ago (), via YouTube [8] In celebration of the song's success, DJ Zinhle released a second [Platinum] video for Umlilo in December and just a few months later, the video has reached over 3 million views on YouTube. [1]
"Crazy Rap", also known as "Colt 45 and 2 Zig-Zags" or simply "Colt 45", is a song by American rapper Afroman. It was featured on his third album, Sell Your Dope, and was later included on his greatest hits album, The Good Times.
Tempoe began his career as a statistician and web developer in Nigeria's budding tech industry. He had always found pleasure in music, teaching himself basic production techniques using the fruity loops app and producing songs for free, before a chance meeting with then afrobeats producer, CKay, led to him producing the latter's first official single, "Nkechi Turnup" in 2016.
Afrobeats is also sometimes referred to as Afro-pop [29] [37] [3] and Afro-fusion. [38] [39] A few artists have used the same alternative names to describe their music; Don Jazzy has stated he prefers "Afro-pop" rather than Afrobeats. [29] Wizkid, Burna Boy, and Davido all use Afro-fusion or Afro-pop to describe their music.
"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" is a song by Colombian singer Shakira, featuring the South African band Freshlyground. Co-written by Shakira and John Hill, it was released on 7 May 2010 by Epic Records as the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which was held in South Africa.
Tyla's official music video for her song "Water" was the winner at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards for MTV Video Music Award for Best Afrobeats Video. [3]In her acceptance speech, Tyla chose to identify with South African "amapiano", distancing herself from Nigerian "afrobeats", which ended up causing mayhem on social media as Nigerian on-air personality Do2dtun went on to call Tyla a ...
Dizzy Gillespie 1955 "Manteca" is one of the earliest foundational tunes of Afro-Cuban jazz.Co-written by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller in 1947, it is among the most famous of Gillespie's recordings (along with the earlier "A Night in Tunisia") and is "one of the most important records ever made in the United States", according to Gary Giddins of The Village Voice. [1] "