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    10 OF SOUTH AFRICA'S LEADING AMAPIANO ARTISTS

    Oct 01, 2021 6 minutes
    BY CHANEL RETIEF

    1. Major League DJz

    • Spotify: 245K monthly listeners

    • Highest YouTube viewership: Major League Djz & Abidoza (Ft. Cassper Nyovest, Kammu Dee & Ma Lemon) – Le Plane E'Landile: 4 Million Views

    • Social Media ‘Net Worth’

    Instagram - 1.3 million followers

    Facebook -2.4 million followers

    Twitter - 292K followers

    TikTok - 78K followers

    Total: 3.9 million followers

    • Breakout song: Slyza Tsotsi

    At the tender age of five, twins Bandile and Banele Mbere (above), who were born in Boston in the United States, moved to South Africa. When they were 16, they threw the ‘Robot Party’ which ended up changing their lives. Professionally, the duo started off as promoters, having hosted some of the country’s biggest parties. “So when we started DJing, we started at our own parties when artists or DJs wouldn’t make it to their sets on time,” Mbere tells FORBES AFRICA, from the United Kingdom where the duo is currently performing.

    “We started a movement called ‘new age Kwaito’ with our peers.

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