Amapiano Queen Sha Sha continues her reign as The First Lady of Amapiano with her most successful year-to-date, including going global in 2020, nabbing an international award, and pushing boundaries!
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Sha Sha’s story reads like fiction after a chance encounter with a cab driver led her to meet and collaborate with the critically acclaimed hitmaker, DJ Maphorisa. Fast-forward to 2020 and the Zimbabwean songstress beat off some stiff competition to become the winner of this year’s BET Award for Viewers’ Choice: Best New International Act.
Add to this her SAMA nominations for Best Collaboration for “Tender Love featuring DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small” and Rest Of Africa Award and this really has been the year that Sha Sha has come into her own, one year after the release of her debut EP Blossom.
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Her latest single and video for “Woza” also sees The First Lady of Amapiano championing an anthem that boldly urges you to live in the moment. Accompanied by a bright and bold music video directed by Nate Thomas (Simmy “Ngiyesaba”, DJ Sliqe “Spaan Saam featuring Kwesta”) and Nigel Stockl, “Woza” issues a strong summon to the dance floor this summer that’ll be hard to resist.
Stream or Download ‘Woza’ here. Watch the ‘Woza’ video below:
Sha Sha, real name Charmaine Mapimbiro started her music career back at home in Zimbabwe when she started performing at different festivals.
Her biggest break was when she had her own show at the Harare International Festiva of the Arts, also known as HIFA.
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Talking about her hit song Tender Love, she said that everyone goes through relationships, heartbreaks, and all that drama.
“So I usually take some of the energy from my past experiences and put them in my songs,” she said.
When she was asked if Tender Love was about someone she said “maybe”.
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