Makhadzi

Touted as a successor to the late Brenda Fassie, the "Queen of African Pop," Makhadzi is a purveyor of energetic "Limpopo house" music, named after the South African region in which she was raised and developed a formative career as a wedding singer. She sings in Tshivenda, a language not widely known beyond the northern part of her province, and incorporates elements of amapiano into her music, a synth-based local genre, as displayed on a 2021 double-platinum-selling collaboration with Prince Benza, "Ghanama." She was born Ndivhudzannyi Ralivhona in 1996 and raised in the vi...