Maphorisa Shares A Conversation Being Given His Flowers By An Artist He Helped Change His Life. Maphorisa first shot to fame in 2013 as part of the multifarious musical group, Uhuru. The group blew up off the anthemic Y-Tjukutja in 2013, which owned the summer. That same year, Uhuru further enhanced its reputation by producing and featuring on Mafikizolo’s chart-topping, multi award-winning hit single, Khona.
Together with Kabza, he’s pioneered an unusual way of releasing music where they “leak” unreleased music on blogs and file sharing platforms like Datafilehost, then only once the music has been embraced by the masses do they put it out on streaming platforms. It helps them figure out what songs are worth a concerted push and investment. That’s how songs such as Bopha and Adiwele, two of the year’s biggest hits, took off.
He is the one behind discovering new artists like Kabza De Small, Vyno, Felo Le Tee, Tyler ICU and many more. And one artist whom he’s helped to succeed in his career has thanked Maphorisa and given him his flowers while he can still smell them. He explained that he is thankful to the producer and DJ for helping him, as he is now building his mother a house. See the post Maphorisa shared:
In 2016, Maphorisa landed the dream placement when was enlisted to produce on Drake’s One Dance featuring Wizkid and Kyla. The dancehall and afrobeats-leaning single took off almost immediately, and within a year it was the most streamed song of all time.The following year Maphorisa landed another massive placement, this time as a featured producer on international dance music DJ trio, Major Lazer’s Know No Better EP, where he produced the stand-out single, Particula.
