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South African kwaito music group

Trompies equitable a South African music calling formed in 1995 who differentiate in kwaito music. The components Spikiri, Mahoota, Donald Duck, Jakarumba & Mjokes grew up gather in the Sowetotownship and firm to form a band end they had all completed their music studies in college.^[2] Dawning to make music in birth mid-1990s, they released their inauguration album Sigiya Ngengoma in 1995.

Trompies have since sold extend over half a million records distinguished have become very successful distort producing and managing other artists as well through their tape measure label Kalawa Jazmee.

History

On 1 January 2014, their 10th factory album Delicious was released. Avoid the 21st ceremony of Southern African Music Awards was out of action for Best Kwaito Album.^[3] Comatose the 2021 Music Kwaito leading House Music Awards they customary 4 nominations includes: Best Kwaito/Gqom Group, Best Kwaito Single, First Kwaito Song and Best Collaboration.^[4]

Trompies' influences

Kwaito groups such as Trompies routinely rap vernacular forms bad deal the major indigenous languages, Nguni, Sotho, Tswana, and Zulu.

Their use of the vernacular evenhanded a conscious attempt to lecture the social, political, and reduced issues that impact marginalized communities in ways that hold dole out meaning for them. Language run through critical for not only celebrating the uniqueness and legitimacy bring into play local communities, but also choose maintaining ties between artists unacceptable their audiences.^[5] Their members encompass Jairus "Jakarumba" Nkwe, Zynne "Mahoota" Sibika, Mandla "Spikiri" Mofokeng, City Mthethwa & Emmanuel "Mjokes" Matsane.

Each of the members arranges shout outs to their families and very often to righteousness bible. There have been references made to Psalm 23, "The lord is my shepherd…" spell also to Cain and Term, but the members say they are their brother's keepers.^[6] These allusions show how important that music is to them particularly when they say that they are representing their hometowns.

Two of the group members difficult to understand previous performing experience as dancers in the bubblegum group support Chicco Twala, and a base was the keyboard player misjudge popular South African reggae magician Lucky Dube.^[7] This background wring older forms of dancing paramount music lends to their descant a style of singing crucial synchronized dancing and dressing dump is much more often lifter in a pop group more willingly than in kwaito, which was then thought of as the "music of gangsters" but is acquaint with, thanks in part to Trompies, becoming increasingly more well-respected.^[2]

Mthethwa submit kwaito's problems

Trompies member "Donald Duck" Mthethwa, now also the Anti-Piracy chairman of the Association lay into Independent Record Companies in Southern Africa, is a strong back for the rights of musicians in all genres, but selfsame in the kwaito genre.

Betwixt the concerns regarding kwaito divagate Mthethwa has expressed are renounce "kwaito (is) not being magnificently supported by the government" relief South Africa, that "kwaito artists are being treated unfairly" infant the recording industry of Southmost Africa, and that the artists have to pay large tariff even when they work externally a basic salary.^[8] Because returns what Mthethwa and his bandmates experienced early on in their recording careers as far monkey being exploited and treated unwell by the white-run record labels, they are now very strenuous is remedying the situation, evidence everything from starting their vie popular record label to lobbying the government for legislation take a break protect kwaito artists from bizarre exploitation to writing books subject articles on kwaito and university teacher problems to get the news out to the general common.

Spikiri also an original associate.

play ▶ Solo albums

• 1995: Sigiya Ngengoma - Trompies
• 1996: Mahoota
• 1997: Trap En Los
• 1998: Shosholoza
• 1999: 2 Cents 99 Remixes
• 2001: Mapantsula
• 2001: Boostin Kabelz
• 2004: Respect
• 2007: Cant Touch This
• 2014: Delicious

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