Weekly House DJ Feature : Sol Phenduka

Solomzi Thandubuntu Phenduka was born in Johannesburg 18 February 1987 .He has been a music producer since the age of 16. He started his music journey as a rapper ,but after realising he wasn’t happy as a teenager rapping under the name Savage in Vosloorus, his single mother got him a computer and he began making hip hop beats, later he switched over to house beats. He attended St Francis College in Benoni, matriculating in 2006. He received a Bachelors degree from the University of Johannesburg in 2011

Sol joined Yfm as an intern through the Y academy internship program and after the 6 month program joined the newly formed "Flava In Da Mornin" breakfast show as a cohost to Mo flava in 2010. He released his first single Mount Zion 2010, which will be on his eponymous debut album releasing in 2012.He released his third single Uhuru in 2011, the song that put him on the South African map. The song featured on various radio charts across South Africa.

Forget those prêt à passer plugin presets that so many Mzansi house producers rely on to toss off their one-hit clubbing wonders. Sol Phenduka has. A more polymorphous, “organic” Afropolitan groove experience is what he wants to give his listeners. Translated? Whether it’s Swahiliscatted, minimalist-maskandi accordion and mbira-toned calls onto the dance floor (“Uhuru”), or chic Latin cocktail lounge come-ons cut from Don Laka’s kwaai jazzy cloth (“Moon Cry”), featuring saxophonist Mpumi Dhlamini), Phenduka’s debut is a sublimely soulful Pan-African house soundtrack. The DNA circuiting beneath his trippy tribal house invitations (“Home Coming”) and sexy shamanic soul seances (“Isolomzi”, featuring Cama Gwini)? All that jazz, of course. It’s the spirit of jazz that frames the brassy bounce of “Easier” (featuring Qairo) and the Mi Casa-Goldfish-tailored grooves of “All I Know” (featuring Soul Jock) and “All You Ever Need” (featuring Phindi). And it’s jazz that completes the seduction on Deep Cartel’s super-chilled remix of “Winter Sun.
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See video by Sol Phenduka: UHURU

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