Do you know that there is no way you can talk about music in South Africa without mentioning it’s House Music? Well before we begin to talk South Africa House Music, I think we should first of all give a definition and explanation of what a house music is.
Top 10 South African House Music
The history of house music originated right from Chicago in the early 1980s. Over the years, house music has become a global juggernaut, dominating the pop music and giving birth to a huge number of sub genres, and giving rise to a clubbing culture that has gradually developed into a lifestyle.
Right after the abolition of the apartheid in South Africa, house music has shown a fascinating development and influence on modern music in the country with origins in towns like Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Polokwane and Mahikeng.
Every music has a particular culture that it stands for so the house music represents a culture of people breaking free from oppression and depression and using music as a source of power to express their creativity. Just in South Africa, House Music isn’t only considered as a genre of music but it is seen as a part of life in South Africa that’s something that the country cannot do without.
In fact, in the whole of Africa and in the world in generally, the South Africa’s house music is recognized as the biggest and largest in the market per capital and also these locally made south Africa house music are also dominating charts worldwide just like the pop music.
For starters, there are a lot house hold names that has made it big in South African’s House Music and these artists are getting recognized globally and so for the records these are top 10 South African House Music Artists and they are;
- Black Coffee
- Oskido
- Euphonik
- Black Motion
- Lady Zamar
- Master KG
- Cleo
- Prince Kaybee
- Heavy k
- Mafikizolo
And again, these artists and many more have consistently continued to update and release to their fans awesome house music and here is a list of the top 10 South African House Music Songs;
- Skeleton move
- Umona
- Umlilo
- Ndibambe
- Masnemali
- Yebo Mama
- Fetch your life
- This is love
- Ntombi
- The Journey and rest of other good ones.