DJ Maphorisa is one of the biggest artists in South Africa from where the pulsating Amapiano genre started before spreading globally.
In a recent interview with BBC, the award-winning hitmaker shared the story of how he got influenced to start making Amapiano.
According to Maphorisa, Nigerian superstar Wizkid played a notable role in his journey to becoming one of the driving forces of Amapiano.
The South African revealed that he was hanging out with Wizkid in a club in Pretoria where one of the DJs played an Amapiano record that instantly caught Wizkid’s attention who asked him about the sound.
Maphorisa shared that before that Amapiano was already bubbling in South Africa’s underground scene but he never paid attention to it until the sound piqued Wizkid’s curiosity.
“I thought if Wizkid really vibe with this sound then there’s something. So he’s the one who really put me on the sound,” Maphorisa told BBC.
(Pulse Ng)
