A shocker as Ghanaian singer Efya claimed she and her friend Tunez started Amapiano. Shocker, I say, because for the longest time, Amapiano has been named a proudly South African genre boasting of local talents who are flying the South African flag high.
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Efya was a guest on a YouTube channel called Afrobeats Podcast started by Adesope. She made this shocking claim which left us all perplexed.
"I would say Tunez and I started the amapiano thing when we did that first tape in 2019. Before Covid, Tunez and I started making that kind of sound and then we kept going, then South Africans. There have been so many things I’ve been involved in," she stated.
If you may recall, ZAlebs previously reported on Kabza De Small, one of the original Amapiano pioneers, who explained how the sound came about and where it originated from.
He was interviewed by House Music icon Oskido on his very own YouTube show called Joy Ride With Oskido.
"You know how Amapiano started? The township DJs play a song with 125 beats per minute [BPM]. Then you would find other DJ's play the same beat at 115 BPM," he explained, adding that they would also often make mixtapes with a slower tempo.
"First it was remixes then Mdu came up. I don't know what happened, I don't know how he figured out the log drum. Amapiano has always been there but he's the one who came up with Log drum," explained Kabza. "These boys like experimenting, they always check out new plug in's. So when Mdu figured it out, he ran with it. And when I got it, I jumped on the bandwagon."
He then added that, "Amapiano music is mainly Log Drum." Oskido understood him and also explained that Kwaito music also came about the same way where sounds from other genres are used and changed to create a particular sound. When we first started this genre in 2012, there was no one pushing this besides us, Kabza De Small, Josiah De Disciple and Gaba Canal. We started the movement when kwaito was dying out.
Speaking to Daily Sun about Efya's claims, MFR Souls co-founder, Maero said, "There is no way this lady started amapiano. Maybe she wants to get fame, but there’s no way. People know where amapiano is from and it’s here in South Africa."
Explaining just like Kabza how Amapiano started, he explained: "Amapiano is a mix of kwaito and deep house, and kwaito is a South African genre. And even the origins of kwaito are from South Africa. So, as I said, there’s no way a Ghanaian musician came up with amapiano," said.
"When we started the genre didn’t have a name because it wasn’t a familiar sound. It just was keys and no vocals and then people started calling amapiano."
Read more: The KING Of Amapiano
Image credit: ANMG
Read more: Kabza Details How Amapiano Came About
Efya was a guest on a YouTube channel called Afrobeats Podcast started by Adesope. She made this shocking claim which left us all perplexed.
"I would say Tunez and I started the amapiano thing when we did that first tape in 2019. Before Covid, Tunez and I started making that kind of sound and then we kept going, then South Africans. There have been so many things I’ve been involved in," she stated.
If you may recall, ZAlebs previously reported on Kabza De Small, one of the original Amapiano pioneers, who explained how the sound came about and where it originated from.
He was interviewed by House Music icon Oskido on his very own YouTube show called Joy Ride With Oskido.
"You know how Amapiano started? The township DJs play a song with 125 beats per minute [BPM]. Then you would find other DJ's play the same beat at 115 BPM," he explained, adding that they would also often make mixtapes with a slower tempo.
"First it was remixes then Mdu came up. I don't know what happened, I don't know how he figured out the log drum. Amapiano has always been there but he's the one who came up with Log drum," explained Kabza. "These boys like experimenting, they always check out new plug in's. So when Mdu figured it out, he ran with it. And when I got it, I jumped on the bandwagon."
He then added that, "Amapiano music is mainly Log Drum." Oskido understood him and also explained that Kwaito music also came about the same way where sounds from other genres are used and changed to create a particular sound. When we first started this genre in 2012, there was no one pushing this besides us, Kabza De Small, Josiah De Disciple and Gaba Canal. We started the movement when kwaito was dying out.
Speaking to Daily Sun about Efya's claims, MFR Souls co-founder, Maero said, "There is no way this lady started amapiano. Maybe she wants to get fame, but there’s no way. People know where amapiano is from and it’s here in South Africa."
Explaining just like Kabza how Amapiano started, he explained: "Amapiano is a mix of kwaito and deep house, and kwaito is a South African genre. And even the origins of kwaito are from South Africa. So, as I said, there’s no way a Ghanaian musician came up with amapiano," said.
"When we started the genre didn’t have a name because it wasn’t a familiar sound. It just was keys and no vocals and then people started calling amapiano."
Read more: The KING Of Amapiano
Image credit: ANMG