Sha Sha Narrates How She Ended up in Amapiano Genre

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By Kinyua Mwangi

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When you talk about Amapiano in Zimbabwe, the first thing that comes to mind is Sha Sha the self-christened “Queen of Amapiano”. It has been a long journey for her starting in Harare Zimbabwe’s capital to South Africa.

Surprisingly, she did not start out with Amapiano; she was on Pop and RnB.

She had a lot of written music on the two genres and not one on Amapiano.

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“I made so many tracks when I was still at home and not one of them was Amapiano. I was doing more pop and R&B sounds at the time. That’s what polished my vocals, apart from the years singing at school and church,” she told Music in Africa recently.

How she got into Amapiano is interesting. It is in one her trips while in Johannesburg that she was introduced to the right person; DJ Maphorisa.

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“It was simply in the right place at the right time. I had a regular taxi driver in Joburg whom I shared my story with and he coincidentally knew DJ Maphorisa. The driver was kind enough to introduce me to Maphorisa and it has been a rollercoaster ride ever since. I started laying down vocals in the studio, Kabza did his thing and that’s how it began.” Today she has collaborated with big starts in the Amapiano genre including Kabza De Small and MFR Souls.