Tyla’s “Is It Love” brings vulnerability into the A*POP era, blending dance production, pop, Afrobeats and R&B without losing her global rhythm.
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Tyla’s “Is It Love” shifts the emotional centre of the A*POP campaign, showing that her global pop era is not only about movement, fashion and scale. It is also about vulnerability.
Calvin Fallo’s “Everybody Wanna Be In Love” shows that a nearly seven-minute South African house record can still climb, hold attention and become a streaming success without rushing its groove.
DJ Zinhle’s “Baba Yilwa” is proving that a South African hit does not always have to peak on release week. Some records become bigger by slowly entering daily life.
Dr Moruti’s forthcoming We Will Dance treats the dancefloor as more than an escape. Built around faith, resilience and hope, the album asks whether movement itself can become proof that a difficult season did not get the final word.
Years after Martin Kabamba and Riccardo Amatucci left South Africa and popartlive went quiet, the Johannesburg-born project is moving again — beginning with a revived “Holiday” and a catalogue that appears never to have completely left local dance floors.
Shekhinah’s Love on Repeat, Vol. 1 shows why 3-Step is becoming an important middle ground for South African R&B voices: rhythmic enough for DJs, spacious enough for singers and emotional enough for stories to breathe.
“Nipe Kitu” places Major League DJz, Thabza De Soul, Idd Aziz and Untitled Audio inside a wider African dance conversation where Swahili vocals and Southern African electronic production meet.
