South Africa, May 13 -- If you started reading this post wondering "what on earth is amapiano?" and you aren't South African, I'll forgive you. But if you consider yourself South African and you're still wondering what on earth it is, I really hope you're enjoying your life listening to Steve Hofmeyr in Orania.

Other than Siya Kolisi, amapiano was arguably the biggest thing to come out of South Africa in 2019. The name, amapiano, can be directly translated to "pianos" and is a genre of music that has taken the country and various places in the continent by storm.

My first introduction to the genre was when my (tech-savvy) dad casually dropped me a link to an Apple Music playlist in early 2019. Since then, songs such as Sandton and Labantw...