Here are 10 Things You Should Know About hitmaker, Mr JazziQ who has 4 albums to his name and has reality some of the biggest Amapiano songs in the past 5 years.
1. Alexandra-born Mr JazziQ first emerged as one-half of JazziDisciples
2. The South African DJ/producer duo which released a slate of projects that played an important role in Amapiano’s rapid ascendance from the township into the heart of the mainstream alongside the likes of DJ Maphorisa, Kabza De Small and MFR Souls.
3. The duo started DJing in JazziQ’s home township of Alexandra, and then quickly expanded into Thembisa and Soweto.
4. The JazziDisciples began filming their gigs, including new tracks into their sets and then sharing these on different social media platforms. It helped create an appetite for the duo’s music and when they began dropping singles like “Ara’Robala” and “Mogwasha” (2018), fans began streaming the songs in big numbers.
5. Citing house legends from Oskido to Shimza, Culoe Da Song and Black Coffee as influences, the solo sound that Mr JazziQ has been developing since 2020 is “definitely more commercially upbeat and is made for people to respond to instantly – whether something to sing along or dance to – or to listen to while relaxing,” he says.
6. His debut EP, 0303, was one of the breakout successes of 2020 with more than three million streams (as of March 2021).
7. In the past year, Mr JazziQ was part of some of the year’s biggest amapiano songs including ‘VSOP’, ‘Umsebenzi Wethu’, ‘Zlele’, ‘GUPTA’, ‘Catalia’, ‘Woza’, ‘Sithi Sithi’, ‘Woza’, ‘Dakiwe’ and many more.
8. The Woza hitmaker has managed to work with big brands and now has a podcast together with Spitz SA where he hangs out with his fellow Amapiano stars and speaks all things music and the wave of the Amapiano genre
9. He also keeps his passion and love for music alive through his Black Amapiano Music Mix
10. Mr JazziQ now has four albums to his name. He released his debut album, 0303, on his twenty-fifth album. He released his second album, For The Babies, on 21st August 2020, under the Black Is Brown ENT record label. His third album, Party With The English, came out on 23rd April 2021, under the same record label. Mr JazziQ has one collaborative album, Maba Jabul’Abantu. It is a work of art he worked on alongside Busta 929. It was released under the Label: Black Is Brown ENT record label.