Amapiano is just a rebranded version of Ghana's Azonto- Samini
Dancehall musician Samini from Ghana has claimed that Amapiano, a prominent music genre in South Africa, is just a repackaged and renamed version of Ghana's famous Azonto.
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In a recent interview on Property FM, Samini explained why he thinks the genre draws inspiration from Ghanaian roots.
He highlighted that Amapiano heavily borrows from the compositional features of Azonto, which was extremely popular in many different nations during its peak.
Although Samini conceded that Amapiano began as a house music subgenre in South Africa in the middle of the 2010s, she maintained that the parallels between the two genres are too great to be overlooked.
"Today if you do Azonto and you add one or two things to it, somebody will say it's Amapiano, but Amapiano is something which is already South African," the Sweet Mistake crooner stated.
Samini emphasized the uniqueness of Ghanaian music despite the similarities, saying, "Amapiano is always going to be South African, so after everybody tried with Azonto, in the end, you will connect it to Ghana." Thus, Amapiano will have ties to South Africa, but Ghanaian music will always be Ghanaian music."
