Meet Uncle Waffles, the Artist Bringing the South African Amapiano Genre to Coachella

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Following a six-date U.S. tour last fall, Uncle Waffles will become the first amapiano act to perform at Coachella.

about how she started DJing during the pandemic, why one particular 30-minute set changed the trajectory of her career and what her dreams for amapiano music are. While interning at a local Eswatini TV station in 2020, Lungelihle Zwane stumbled upon 15-year-old DJ decks, which a DJ who often visited the office then taught her to use. Having grown up on South African house and movement — a South African subgenre of house and piano-led jazz — that was hitting clubs right before lockdown.

“I’ve never played for that many people,” Zwane recalls. The performance reached an even larger audience when a 30-second Instagram video of Zwane whining her hips to Young Stunna’s “Adiwele” went viral. “[The song] says, ‘Coming at them with force,’ which is what happened to my life after that.” Zwane headlined her first African and U.K.

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