Black Coffee at the South African Music AwardsFrom the unkempt townships to the swanky Durban clubs, the music preference in South Africa is the same – mzansi house. Mzansi house music has been slowly brewing at the base of the continent for some time and is now filtering into clubs and radio stations all over [...]

Dj Black CoffeeMore than 10,000 people came to Durban to witness the popular DJ Black Coffee and a 24-piece orchestra as they set the Moses Mabhida Stadium alight on Friday night.

The talented DJ astonished a lot of people who didn’t know what to expect from the show, since he was doing something that has [...]

Tiwa at Channel O Music AwardsThe Channel O Top 20 is a highlight of the year for music fans and in 2011 promises to be the best television entertainment of the festive season.

To keep viewers guessing about whom will take the highly coveted number one spot, the Channel O Top 20 OF 2011 is [...]

“Where is kwaito?’ “Kwaito is dead!” and “Who is Big Nuz?” are just some of the placards that appeared as part of the video for Big Nuz’s biggest hit, Umlilo.

It has been two years since they released that video, and they find themselves still trying to address those questions and concerns.

The group – made [...]

King PAn emerging Soweto-based producer always believed he could do better than the big names in House music – and has proved it by winning Channel O’s latest DJ search, Think You Can Do Better? In association with Sheer Sound

Kgosi Prince Chauke – known simply as King P – has beaten off strong competition from [...]

Mshasho Power: The Dogg Receiving His AwardKwaito may have been born in SA, but it was a Namibian artist who scooped the “Most Gifted Kwaito Video” title at the Channel O music video awards on Friday - the third time a Namibian has won it in the five-year history of the awards.

It was a Best [...]

Most Gifted Video of The Year: Zakes BantwiniOn a night that a host of live performances celebrated African music at its most electric, young, gifted artists from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Namibia, and Uganda were named winners at the 2011 Channel O Music Video Awards, brought to you in association with Hyundai.

Host and [...]

Dineo MoeketsiThe 2011 Channel O Music Video Awards, brought to you in association with Hyundai and presented by South Africa’s Dineo Moeketsi and Nigeria’s Banky W, will be broadcast LIVE on Friday, 11 November at 21:00.

It will be preceded by a one-hour V-Entertainment Channel O Music Video Awards Red Carpet special hosted by Siyabonga [...]

Kabelo Immortal CoverKabelo “Bouga Luv” Mabalane has come to be known as transformation man.

He went from being TKZee’s “chubby cheeks” to completing the Comrades Marathon six times.

He also went from being a cocaine addict to being involved in the church. Now, with his seventh solo album Immortal – Volume 1, he intends to change [...]

South African Hip Pop Artist: AKAA stunning line-up of hot, contemporary African talent is set to ignite the LIVE broadcast of the 2011 Channel O Music Video Awards, driven by Hyundai.

Taking place on Friday 11 November, this year’s event features everyone from hotshot South African newcomer AKA to established Mozambican artist, Lizha James and a [...]

Mandoza and EESHaving spent the last eight years using his German roots to represent Kwaito in Europe, Namibian born artist EES is no beginner. In fact, he is quite the opposite. He has been nominated for the MTV Europe Rookie Award (2008), has won the MTV Africa Listener’s Choice Award and was voted Namibian Artist [...]

The “K” In TKZee: KabeloHe makes up one third of the still hugely popular TKZee and his solo endeavors have been just as successful. Kabelo “Bouga Luv” Mabalane has just released his new track called Can’t Kill Me Now and he has made is available to download for free until tomorrow night. Be sure [...]

Spikiri - King Don FatherThe sight greeting me on arrival at the Kalawa Jazmee studio was a pleasant surprise. Tokollo and Spikiri are listening to a track and laughing together. I stare quietly, marvelling at the chemistry between the two.

They look up and see me. Hugs all around, before Spikiri laughs: “Dis m**********r [...]

2011 Channel O Music Video AwardsIt’s down to the wire for Africa’s hottest artists and music videos with the just-released list of nominees in the 2011 Channel O Music Video Awards driven by Hyundai!

This time around, the only Original.African awards feature multiple artists with two or more nods - making it an open field [...]

2011 Channel O Music Video AwardsThe nominees for the 2011 Channel O Music Video Awards were announced at Taboo in Sandton ,late last evening.
Here is a list of the nominees. Truly representative of tracks that got us “grooving” this past year.

Below I have the Artist,Video Title and the Voting Code :

Most Gifted Male Video
D’Banj [...]

Zakes BantwiniThe idea was to highlight the two biggest stars in South Africa at the moment – Professor and Zakes Bantwini. The synchronicity is perfect. Both Durban artists, both riding the crest of popularity, both very talented.

But when the country’s biggest kwaito artist didn’t bother turning up for the interview twice in a row, I [...]

One argument why kwaito has slowly evolved into mzansi house is the need by artist to capture an international audience; more importantly though is the great response and support the mzansi house scene has received locally.

The response has been so good so much that new artists have been groomed specifically to fill the musical needs [...]

The Dogg Namibian Kwaito star, The Dogg, is launching his ninth album, The Deception which will see him bring in South Africa’s self proclaimed Queen of Bling, Khanyi Mbau and Kwaito star, Brickz, for a performance in Windhoek.

The launch is expected to feature local musicians, including Jericho, Gal Level, Catty Catt, Fresh Family, KaniBal, D-Naff, [...]

The Presenters: Hirayama and KayembeThe search for South Africa’s best dance crew explodes into action this June when Masters of Rhythm airs on VUZU, presented by Lalla Hirayama and Fred Kayembe.

The first episode in this heart-pumping reality series debuts on Wednesday 22 June at 19:30. Join the Masters of Rhythm (MOR) team as we [...]

In the Middle: Professor, looking more like a general that the Professor from the University of KJThere were shocks and surprises at the 17th MTN South African Music Awards 2011, held for the first time at Montecasino.

Last year’s SAMA Awards saw Durban kwaito group Big Nuz dominate the awards, this year another kwaito artist Professor [...]

L’vovo Performing at Metro AwardsHe might not be as popular as he used to be, but kwaito artist L’vovo Derrango is making waves in neighbouring countries

This weekend L’vovo will begin a tour of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.

L’vovo said his new album, Irrisistible , which is not doing well locally, is “selling like hot [...]

Kwaito Is Not Dead, It Has EvolvedI had a debate with some Facebook acquaintances last week on the thrilling subject of Kwaito music because a friend of mine had a status update that said there are no longer Kwaito instrumentals because if you muted vocals on the music we hear lately under that specific [...]

17th Annual South African Music AwardsWith a lengthy judging and auditing process due to the record-breaking amounts of entries received from albums released over the past year, the results brought celebration to the SA recording industry once again.

The premium glitzy venues La Toscana and Beira Alta Restaurant in Montecasino played host to this years star-studded [...]

CD LaunchFirebrand club Dj and house music producer, Rowick Deep has dug deep into his soul for inspiration to unleash one of the most definitive house albums of 2011.
The album is fully vocals, and features the cream of local and international vocal talent, including RJ Benjamin, Auriol Hays, Maxine Bennett, Che Cherry, Kay Ice queen, [...]

Channel O - O SessionsThe Original.African channel is at it again with the launch of O-Sessions - an intimate music concert featuring SA’s leading artists. It’s the artist’s story through their words and music.

Channel O is giving 50 loyal viewers per show a chance to be part of the story as some of the industry’s [...]

Dj Tira One of the most respected DJs in the club deejay scene will set the decks ablaze on the next Channel O Celebrity Bassment mix on Friday 21 January at 18:00.

Mthokozi Khathi better known as DJ Tira formed the deejay duo Durban’s Finest together with Dj Sox in 2004. They were the team [...]

MTV African Music Awards (MAMA) Lagos, 11 December 2010: Congolese artist Fally Ipupa, and Nigeria’s 2Face led the winners at the third edition of the MTV Africa Music Awards with Airtel (MAMA), each taking home two trophies at the music awards ceremony at the Eko Expo Hall, Lagos on 11 December 2010.

Nominated in four separate [...]

Teargas Live 101 2010 has been Teargas’s year, no doubt! Now the gold selling multi-award-winning hip hop outfit will be performing in your lounge through a live performance to be aired exclusively on Channel O.

Teargas 101 Live premieres on Monday 13 December at 21:00 in South Africa and 22:00 for the rest of Africa on [...]

MAMA AwardsSouth African kwaito ensemble, Big Nuz, is among the big names that are set to dazzle international audiences at the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) on Saturday.

The trio will share the stage with the big names in the industry including the contemporary rap icon T-Pain and four-time MAMA winner D’Banj of Nigeria.

This year’s [...]

Professor and OskidoThe 10th Metro FM Music Awards held at the Mbombela Stadium in Mbombela (Nelspruit) at the weekend gave Mpumalanga the confidence to host any other event of this calibre, if it wants to.

The weather agreed and Mbombela was a beautiful host. The black-and-white carpet had celebrities dressed up to the hilt, but [...]

King of kwaito: Arthur MafokateSouth Africa, brace yourself for yet another set of awards.

The kwaito genre too will finally have awards of its own.

King of kwaito Arthur “Vuvuzela” Mafokate has decided to honour artists who continue to ensure that kwaito music remains in the limelight.

Mafokate says he will be staging the inaugural Kwaito Music [...]

Channel O Music Video Awards 2010 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday 4 November 2010.

Receiving Award: ProMusic fans from all over Africa have spoken, voting in their hundreds of thousands for the winners in this year’s 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards.

Broadcast live for the first time at a glittering event held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa tonight (Thursday 4 November); winners as voted for [...]

Khuli ChanaThe Channel O Music Video Awards are going LIVE for the very first time this year – and the Original.African channel is stopping at nothing to ensure viewers at home are entertained during and after the show!

Thursday 4 November is the night it all goes down – and the action is super-charged from the [...]

Helping the Production Team: Zwai BalaThe 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards are going LIVE for the first time in the history of Africa’s most prestigious and long-running awards event!
Beaming out to music fans across the continent on the night of Thursday 4 November from the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg South Africa, this [...]

Loyiso GolaAll-round funnyman and supremely talented entertainer Loyiso Gola has been announced as the host of the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards.
He will be joined by a host of Channel O’s most popular presenters including long-standing Channel O VJs, Kabelo and Lungile, along with Top Mais presenter Weza, 100% Naija’s Tana and Dineo Moeketsi [...]

Black Coffee In London At noon yesterday, DJ Black Coffee was still standing and in high spirits, 60 hours after he had started playing himself into the history books.

Not only did Black Coffee deejay for 60 hours, he also raised awareness about The Black Coffee Foundation, which helps disabled people.

Black Coffee, real name Nkosinathi Maphumulo, [...]

Win Big When You VoteNeed wheels desperately? Love African music in all its brilliant variety? Then here’s an easy way to combine both of these in one cool way!

Voters in the upcoming 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards stand a chance to win one of four brand new Chevy Sparks from NOW until 29 October [...]

Dj CleoIn my past life as a DJ, I used to jam with DJ Cleo at Heineken House Parties across Gauteng. In those days, Cleo was just starting to become a household name.

“I started playing music when I was 10,” he says. “I played guitar in church and school bands, and in 1997 I started [...]

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Dineo MoeketsiThe new O-Access presenter has been named as 21-year-old Dineo Moeketsi.

The Kwa-Thema-raised National School of the Arts graduate beat out five other contestants in the final stages of the O-Access presenter search to take the most highly coveted job in entertainment on the African continent.

“Tears, tears, tears. The minute they called [...]

On the left:Thabo MokweleDoctor Khumalo is the next guest on Mzansi Magic’s popular Top Ten At 10: My Life in Music, beaming out of South Africa’s newest homegrown television channel on Wednesday 28 July at 22:00.

Hosted by Kaya FM’s Thabo “T- Bose” Mokwele, this exciting combination of radio and television is filmed at the Kaya [...]

SenyakaAlthough childhood friends Senyaka and Kamazu were already creating hits by the mid-Eighties, their official full-length collaboration would come much later, when they teamed up as the Hunger Boyz at the beginning of the 21st century.

Both preceded the kwaito era by at least half a decade and emerged into stardom at about the same time. [...]

The Queen of Maskanda - Busi MhlongoJohannesburg – President Jacob Zuma has paid homage to the late Busi Mhlongo who died as a result of breast cancer on Tuesday evening, calling her the “Queen of Maskanda music”.

“She inspired the nation and let the world know of South Africa’s quest for freedom,” Zuma said in [...]

This is FootballWhen Germany was announced as the hosts of the 2006 FIFA World Cup despite South Africa being strong favourites the choice was greeted with surprise and indignation around the world. In South Africa Mandela’s Rainbow Nation had gathered to celebrate their impending victory but they instead had to break out into a moving [...]

iRequestwith a brand new music request show. But stop right there if you think the continent has had its full of request shows: iRequest is not your ordinary music request show.

Kicking off, appropriately, on Africa Day on Tuesday 25 May at 18:00, the show is all about giving ordinary young Africans their 15 minutes [...]

Deep LevelDeep Level’s commitment to delivering hip-hop in fresh, exciting ways reaches fruition with the duo’s brand new video, “We Run The City”.

Set to debut on Channel O on Friday 7 May at 17:30 - but first on www.channelo.tv at 12:00 - the video steps firmly away from the “hot girls shaking booty” clichés [...]

Big Nuz with Tira: Multi Award WinnersBig Nuz, the durban based kwaito group, has this year dominated the MTN South African Music Awards. Considered the most prestigious Awards in South Africa, the MTN South African Music Awards can be compared to America’s Grammy Awards.

The 16th Annual MTN South African Music Awards Winners are

Male Artist of [...]

Dj Cleo : Best Selling Ring Back ToneFriday the 16th of April saw Sun City’s Royal Ballroom play host to some of South Africa’s most slick and glamorous artists, producers and record industry reps for the MTN Gala Awards. The categories ranged from Best R&B Neo-Soul album, to Best Producer, to Remix of the Year, [...]

NonhleViewers across Africa have come to know Nonhle Thema as the feisty, fun, and often formidable host of Channel O’s O Access – a show that’s given the continent’s global entertainment fans up-close and unique access to some of the world’s biggest stars.

Now, as Season 4 winds down to a close after another dazzling [...]