” I Don’t Usually Write Songs” – Sino Msolo On His Music Creativity.Sino Msolo was inescapable in 2021. After making the decision to move to Johannesburg from Durban where he grew up, the singer-songwriter set off on a scorching feature run that saw him quickly rise into the most in-demand vocalist in the Amapiano scene.
Whenever he got the opportunity to get in front of the mic, Msolo would consistently deliver quality output. He became a frequent visitor at recording studios of the country’s biggest Amapiano DJs and producers.“When the year started, I had already released an album before, so it was a thing of let me not rush myself to release another one, let me just grow my brand then once more people know my name I’ll actually release my own project,” he says, his voice husky from a gruelling festive season. “At the beginning of the year (2021) I said let me collaborate with bigger artists. How am I gonna meet them or manage to get to them? That’s up to God, but I’m gonna do it.” And so he did.
Sino opened up about his music creative process, sharing that he usually does not write songs but actually just hop on a beat. “You can play a beat now and within two minutes I’ll sing on it. There’s this thing I do, I don’t usually write songs, I just sing on the spot […] and freestyle the whole song, and other songs I have to write something just to remember the lines […],” he said.
Last year, popular podcaster MacG hosted amapiano unwrapped where multiple opinions were shared about amapiano artists. One guy made claims that Sino makes hits but he can’t sing. Reacting to this, Sino said he has gotten to a point were people’s opinions don’t matter to him anymore. “Such opinions don’t bother me anymore, I’m just doing me and doing what I know I do best,” he told MacG.
