I’m actually still doing my studies! I’m currently doing my first year Bachelor’s in Business Administration. I was studying for a National Diploma in management services and organisational development. Most of the tracks I produced in that time, but some other tracks on the album I produced during lockdown, in 2020. I’m proud of the fact that I produced the whole album while I was in student accommodation, at the Tshwane University of Technology. Like, it’s the project that introduced amapiano to the world. I can say, that’s the one I can say I’m most proud of. I’m also listening to a lot of DJ Shimza, Black Coffee. I’m listening to a lot of DJ Spinna, Bob’Ezy. Mostly amapiano clubs, but we also have quite a lot of deep house clubs. There are quite a lot of clubs in Soweto. Like, I’m so addicted to deep house! It very much influences the type of music I make. The follow‑up to Amapiano Selections is Where You Are, which features contributions from several of Raduvha’s contemporaries, including Diego Don, Stylo MusiQ and singers Leyla and Ka圜ee. Amapiano music itself has been propagated at a grassroots level by young producers with no easy access to high‑spec studio equipment, crafting tracks in Internet cafes and sharing them on YouTube and Facebook. In much the same way as the TR‑808 came to characterise hip‑hop, amapiano has developed a remarkable association with the eight‑voice DX10 FM soft synth: a bundled plug‑in in FL Studio that is capable of deep, punchy and plucky log drum sounds. “In 2018, 2019, somewhere there, I was dreaming, I woke up, I was in Africa, and I suddenly started calling myself Teno Afrika.” The name Teno Afrika, Raduvha explains, has mystical origins. The producer’s deft and minimal explorations of the genre, the name of which translates as ‘the pianos’ in Zulu, eventually led him to release debut album Amapiano Selections in 2020, via Brian Shimkovitz’s Awesome Tapes From Africa label, to a wave of international acclaim. He spent much of his childhood in Johannesburg and first discovered DJ’ing and production on his father’s computer in 2007. He has become something of an international ambassador for the style, which fuses deep house and jazz along with preceding South African dance genres, namely the kwaito of ’90s Soweto and the raw, repetitive rhythms of Durban’s gqom (Zulu for ‘drum’).Īmapiano grew out of a subculture of homegrown producers from the townships of Gauteng province, where Raduvha grew up. Still in higher education yet already making waves across Europe and beyond, it was relatively recently, in 2019, that Raduvha began a love affair with the South African house genre known as amapiano. Teno Afrika, aka Lutendo Raduvha, is one of South Africa’s fastest‑rising electronic music stars.
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