Lady Du Opens Up About Making Millions From Amapiano. Lady Du is a South African Amapiano artist and DJ. Lady Du started working on her music career since she was nine years old but struggled to gain recognition in the competitive music scene in Mzansi. She had her breakout many years later in 2020 after almost giving up
Lady Du has been trying to make it into the mainstream from a tender age, and she has managed to find fame in amapiano. Speaking on what the genre did in her life and what she has achieved, Lady Du says she has become a millionaire through the genre. “Amapiano did a lot for me. It bought me everything I thought was a dream, and I did that with literally 4 songs. I don’t have a body of work, I’ve never released an album before, this will be my first album. So I bought all my cars and everything, through amapiano,” she said.
Though Lady Du said she does not care about the titles she gets along the way while working towards becoming an international amapiano star, it is undeniable she’s the biggest female artist dominating the genre. “I wouldn’t dub myself as the queen of amapiano. I’ve never done this for a title, but I appreciate it when people call me all of that because it’s how they view me. I was the first female to have the highest streams on amapiano and be on 100 songs at a time.”
“When you look at the streams on the songs, most of them are platinum, I’m not on a piano song that is not platinum. I’m the highest-streamed female in amapiano.”
