Dancer and choreographer Hope Ramafalo is a ball of energy with knee strength that is revered by the OG singer, Bucie. Hope was one of the guests at the Soft Glow lunch with Vaseline in Johannesburg.

With energy and purpose, they rehearsed a sequence in the style of the house music subgenre born on the streets of the townships around 15 years ago and now showcased by stars like Beyonce and Tyla.

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled ...

It was opening night at the Brooklyn Mirage, a seasonal night club in East Williamsburg. In the main area, about five thousand people were bobbing and waving along with an English d.j. named Chris ...

“Amapiano is winning all over the gaff,” Marcus Nasty tells me. “But where it came from – the people who really made it – they don’t get enough of a shout out from us.” “For the sake of fairness, you ...

There’s a lot of hype around amapiano. The South African dance music genre has dominated dancefloors since 2019, spreading from South Africa to West Africa and now to the world. But it’s time to peer ...

Infectious, contagious, catchy. It should be no surprise that amapiano, the South African offshoot of house music that rose to international prominence during the pandemic, is frequently described in ...

Described as one of the hottest music genres around today, Amapiano is taking over the world. To find out more, BBC 1Xtra travelled to its spiritual home, South Africa, to explore the genre's past, ...

During a period marked by distress and anguish, Amapiano created many transient moments for people around the globe. At the turn of 2020, and throughout countless hellish months locked indoors, it was ...

The effort was captured on camera for the television show Stumbo Record Breakers. For the largest Amapiano dance, three South African performers broke the Guinness World Record. 250 people gathered at ...