Pics! Amapiano Artists Mourn The Death Of AKA. One of South Africa’s top rap artists, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the eastern city of Durban, his family said.Kiernan Forbes, 35, won multiple South African awards, was nominated several times for a Black Entertainment Television award in the US and was once nominated for an MTV Europe music award.
He was shot on Friday night alongside another man while they were walking towards their car from a restaurant. “It is with extreme sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our beloved son,” his parents, Tony and Lynn Forbes, said in a statement posted on AKA’s Twitter account. “Our son was loved, and he gave love in return.”
Police said: “They were allegedly approached by two armed suspects who walked to them from across the street and shot the victims at close range.”Forbes was booked to perform at a club on Friday night, according to the Durban city mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda.Police said the motive of the shooting was unknown, and an investigation was under way.
Beauty Dlulane, who chairs a parliamentary committee on arts and culture, condemned AKA’s murder, describing it as a “hit”.She called on authorities “to protect South Africans from this new scourge of what seems to be contract and revenge killings where performing artists and DJs seem to be targeted”.
Tributes have been pouring in from fans, friends and industry friends. Amapiano artists have also shared their tributes and are mourning the star. Check it out:
Last November, a star of the house music subgenre amapiano, Oupa Sefoka – known as DJ Sumbody – was killed alongside his bodyguard in a drive-by shooting in Johannesburg. While King of Bacardi Vusi Ma R5 was shot and killed recently.
