Uncle Waffles: Taking Amapiano To The World ‘Feels Amazing But Comes With A Lot Of Pressure’

This Week's Episode of Apple Music 1’s Africa Now Radio, hosted by Dadaboy Ehiz, features a conversation with Uncle Waffles. 

The Amapiano star mainly discusses her latest project ‘Asylum’, diversity in Amapiano and taking the genre to the world.

This is what she had to say: 

Uncle Waffles On Taking African Music To The World

“I wanted a project that’s going to represent the journey that I’ve been through since everything happened. There’s a huge part of what happens that we don’t share, there was a lot of emotions throughout this whole time, going from someone who was taking free-kicks to travelling the world, came with a lot of things, so I wanted a project that represents the emotions that I’ve felt, feeling like you are trapped in somewhat of an asylum - it’s a beautiful asylum, but there’s so many crazy things happening that it just felt like the perfect name for my next project when I’m now in a different stage of my career.”

Uncle Waffles Discusses The Diversity of Amapiano 

“One thing I’ve tried to do [with ‘Asylum’] is to make sure it shows the diversity amapiano has, to make sure that actually amapiano can fit into every genre, the same way house did. Everyone was able to do house remixes, with any sort of language, any cadence, so I just wanted to get to a place for myself where my music also allows all types of people to hop on. We’d love to have more people hop on to ‘piano sounds, so that’s the energy you should expect - a lot of diversity on the project.”

Uncle Waffles Tells Apple Music about Taking African Music to the World

“Travelling the world, getting to share this genre… it feels absolutely amazing but comes with a lot of pressure because a lot of the places that I’m privileged to travel to I’m usually the first contact with ‘piano. It’s such a beautiful experience but it’s also a high-pressure experience because you know, you always have to make sure that the first contact that these people have is a contact that will make sure that the door stays open for every other amapiano act, for them to constantly want the other acts to come out, so there’s a lot of pressure but there’s so much beauty. I’m getting to see a lot of the world, experiencing things I never thought I’d be able to experience. It’s amazing, it’s still a lot of pressure but it’s beautiful overall.”

Tune in and listen to the full episode of Africa Now Radio with Dadaboy Ehiz this Friday, April 14th at 9a Lagos/London / 10a Johannesburg/Paris / 1a LA / 4a NYC on Apple Music 1 at apple.co/_AfricaNow.