Organisers of the 2022 Francophone Games in Kinshasa have cancelled
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okayafrica Images supplied. Review: New Scorpion Kings and TRESOR Album Takes Amapiano To New Spheres
Pioneering amapiano duo
TRESOR strike gold on their joint album Rumble In The Jungle .
Scorpion Kings, the duo made up of producers Kabza De Small and DJ Maphorisa, continues to spearhead and make efforts to take amapiano to new spheres. They are part of a handful of the genre s acts who have performed outside South Africa in countries such as Tanzania and Kenya where the yanos is proving to be popular. Kabza De Small s 2020 album
I Am The King of Amapiano: Sweet and Dust features Nigerian heavyweights and recent Grammy winners Wizkid and Burna Boy. For me, it s like we are just expanding the amapiano wave so other people can reach it and we can grow the music, DJ Maphorisa said in the album s official press statement.