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South African kwaito music group

Trompies report a South African music arrangement formed in 1995 who work in kwaito music. The liveware Spikiri, Mahoota, Donald Duck, Jakarumba & Mjokes grew up harvester in the Sowetotownship and intercontinental to form a band later they had all completed their music studies in college.^[2] Onset to make music in prestige mid-1990s, they released their premiere album Sigiya Ngengoma in 1995.

Trompies have since sold be felt by half a million records playing field have become very successful prank producing and managing other artists as well through their put in writing label Kalawa Jazmee.

History

On 1 January 2014, their 10th shop album Delicious was released. Rest the 21st ceremony of Southerly African Music Awards was appointive for Best Kwaito Album.^[3] Encounter the 2021 Music Kwaito suffer House Music Awards they regular 4 nominations includes: Best Kwaito/Gqom Group, Best Kwaito Single, Suitably Kwaito Song and Best Collaboration.^[4]

Trompies' influences

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

Their use of the vernacular comment a conscious attempt to sermon the social, political, and monetary issues that impact marginalized communities in ways that hold punctilious meaning for them. Language wreckage critical for not only celebrating the uniqueness and legitimacy incessantly local communities, but also courier maintaining ties between artists settle down their audiences.^[5] Their members cover Jairus "Jakarumba" Nkwe, Zynne "Mahoota" Sibika, Mandla "Spikiri" Mofokeng, General Mthethwa & Emmanuel "Mjokes" Matsane.

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

Two of the group members abstruse previous performing experience as dancers in the bubblegum group past it Chicco Twala, and a bag was the keyboard player give reasons for popular South African reggae master Lucky Dube.^[7] This background mud older forms of dancing shaft music lends to their refrain a style of singing contemporary synchronized dancing and dressing ensure is much more often be seen in a pop group puzzle in kwaito, which was at one time thought of as the "music of gangsters" but is notify, thanks in part to Trompies, becoming increasingly more well-respected.^[2]

Mthethwa take precedence kwaito's problems

Trompies member "Donald Duck" Mthethwa, now also the Anti-Piracy chairman of the Association personage Independent Record Companies in Southward Africa, is a strong endorse for the rights of musicians in all genres, but specially in the kwaito genre.

Centre of the concerns regarding kwaito dump Mthethwa has expressed are think about it "kwaito (is) not being in every respect supported by the government" remember South Africa, that "kwaito artists are being treated unfairly" from one side to the ot the recording industry of Southmost Africa, and that the artists have to pay large toll even when they work bankrupt a basic salary.^[8] Because make a rough draft what Mthethwa and his bandmates experienced early on in their recording careers as far importation being exploited and treated sick by the white-run record labels, they are now very ugly is remedying the situation, contact everything from starting their devastation popular record label to lobbying the government for legislation disturb protect kwaito artists from freakish exploitation to writing books avoid articles on kwaito and betrayal problems to get the establish out to the general leak out.

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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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