Kamo Mphela Reveals The Grade She Failed In High School. Kamogelo Mphela, is a South African dancer and singer. She became an internet celebrity after she posted a video of her dancing on her social media account. Kamo Mphela’s success has been extremely rapid, and probably intense for a 21-year-old artist. Super rapid growth always bears the risk of a super-rapid fall, but the singer has a plan for herself and the whole amapiano movement.
Kamo Mphela revealed that she failed a grade in high school. During the interview with MacG, she revealed that she failed grade 11. “It was a hectic experience – I never experienced that type of pain in my life.” She said.
Detailing her rise to fame, Kamo also told the story of how her biggest song, Jobe came about. “Jr met Jobe and after a video of me promoting the song went viral on Twitter they wanted me on the track. The song was already done and I put my vocals on it.” She explains. “I didn’t even know that the Jobe song had splits.”
Another shocking revelation we learnt from the interview was that to this day, Kamo Mphela hasn’t made any cent from the song. “People trying to get you to sign contracts so that they can hold you down. I went through a couple of songs where I didn’t get any money from them. Jobe is one of those.”
Vibes, energy, dance, are all central components to Kamo’s music aka amapiano, the latest avatar of the hyper creative South African house scene. The genre has been sending artists to perform everywhere on the continent, but that is not enough for the singer, who doesn’t take the “Amapiano Queen” title as a compliment. “When they say amapiano queen, they are putting me in one box”, she explains. “But I like dance music and that’s my whole thing, so I want to be able to do afrobeats, to do any dance music that anybody resonates. Even in South Africa: Kwaito, Gqom… I can do anything”.
