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Planet Afropop - Johannesburg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House

Planet Afropop - Johannesburg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House

Update: 2025-01-03
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Our reporter from Texas, Akshaj Turebylu, triangulates the influences responsible for the irresistible, intercontinental, genre-bending, collaborative album called History of House. Our guides include Shimmy Jiyane, a founding member of the Soweto Gospel Choir, the pre-eminent African gospel performers in the world. We're also joined by Latroit, a Grammy-winning producer who got his start with the legendary techno wizards, Inner City. Akshaj speaks to Shimmy and Dennis to learn how Australian DJ Groove Terminator put the pieces together for this revelatory release blending Afro house, Amapiano, techno, gospel, and more into, as it were, a tapestry of "the (global) history of house." As we find out, Detroit and Johannesburg have been speaking to each other for much longer than you might imagine. In this episode we also preview Afrobeat artist Amayo’s 2025 album, Lion Awakes.
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Planet Afropop - Johannesburg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House

Planet Afropop - Johannesburg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House

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