President Cyril Ramaphosa On Learning How To Dance To Amapiano. ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has thanked the youth for excelling in making the amapiano music genre a global sensation.He was delivering the ANC’s January 8 statement at the Mbombela Stadium in Mpumalanga at the weekend.
Ramaphosa said he is learning how to dance to amapiano. He vowed to teach ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe .“From the rise of kwaito music in the early 1990s, I could never dance to kwaito today. Young people are excelling in amapiano and they are trying to teach me to dance to amapiano,” Ramaphosa said.
The amapiano genre has become a global success and topped music charts, with artists such as DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small playing a huge role in its popularity.Last year multi Grammy award-winner Rihanna named Mnike by Tyler ICU and Tumelo_za her favourite song of the year.
Amapiano, a Nguni word loosely translated to “the pianos”, is a south african subgenre of house music that emerged in South Africa in the mid-2010s. It is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music characterized by synths and wide percussive basslines.
