{"id":26076,"date":"2025-01-13T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/african-music\/dj-maphorisa-shares-how-wizkid-influenced-him-to-start-making-amapiano\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:27:15","slug":"dj-maphorisa-shares-how-wizkid-influenced-him-to-start-making-amapiano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=26076","title":{"rendered":"DJ Maphorisa shares how Wizkid influenced him to start making Amapiano"},"content":{"rendered":"


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DJ Maphorisa is one of the biggest artists in South Africa from where the pulsating Amapiano genre started before spreading globally.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In a recent interview with BBC, the award-winning hitmaker shared the story of how he got influenced to start making Amapiano. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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According to Maphorisa, Nigerian superstar Wizkid played a notable role in his journey to becoming one of the driving forces of Amapiano. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The South African revealed that he was hanging out with Wizkid in a club in Pretoria where one of the DJs played an Amapiano record that instantly caught Wizkid’s attention who asked him about the sound.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Maphorisa shared that before that Amapiano was already bubbling in South Africa’s underground scene but he never paid attention to it until the sound piqued Wizkid’s curiosity. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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“I thought if Wizkid really vibe with this sound then there’s something. So he’s the one who really put me on the sound,”<\/i> Maphorisa told BBC.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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\u201cWizkid was the one that put me on Amapiano when it was still an underground sound\u201d<\/p>\n

– DJ Maphorisa <\/p>\n

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Before then, Maphorisa<\/strong> revealed he was doing more Afrobeats and Afro House records, but Wizkid’s question influenced him to make a notable switch that would see him rise to become one of the major figures in Amapiano alongside other South African stars led by DJ and Producer Kabza De Small<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Maphorisa has earlier credited Wizkid as the first Nigerian artist to explore Amapiano<\/a> after the Grammy winner was joined by Burna Boy <\/strong>and Casper Nyovest <\/strong>on Kabza De Small<\/strong>‘s hit record ‘Sponono’. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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