Maphorisa Mocks His Own English Vocab. DJ Maphorisa real name Themba Sekowe has been hitting the industry for a while now, though he made it but recently after finding ways to revolutionalise the Amapiano sound thus making him a pioneer of the sound.
Maphorisa took to social media to laugh at his own English, saying it’s not his mother’s tongue. “Guy’s my English e tlile ka skepe flopo e dilute ke metsi. English a se bo dear,” he wrote. See post:
The star saw a huge interest from the public in amapiano, thus he mainly focused on investing so much in it. Explaining his reasons, he said: “With my gigs, I wanted to understand people’s reactions to this new sound because amapiano was underground. What really sparked my interest in the genre was that, at the time, I was looking to get into something that originated in South Africa. Amapiano is part of kwaito and dance music. When I started working with Afrobeats, which hails from Western Africa, I felt that we didn’t have a sound that strongly represented South Africa. When I started paying close attention to amapiano, I knew that this was a sound that would take South Africa to the world. There’s a lot that you can do with amapiano — you can make it soulful, funky, dusty and hard or jazz it up.”
Phori mentioned that he knew that at some point, music genre gqom would become irrelevant, thus influencing him to start experimenting with new sounds and beats. “At some point, I knew that gqom would reach its sell-by date because it was fast-paced and dark. I find that once a genre becomes dark, the songs end up sounding the same. Gqom was dope but I also felt like it was, only, for certain people. However, with amapiano, I realised quite early on that there was a lot that we could do with it,” he said.
