Since the start of the Covid 19 lockdown, I’ve embarked on an incredible journey of music. I’ve taken some of my favourite songs of all time & I’ve turned them into parodies of what I’ve been experiencing at home during the lockdown. It’s been an incredibly enjoyable (and sometimes cathartic) process, and I’m glad that […]
Having your music on radio can earn you a great passive income. Every time your song plays on radio, you are owed a publishing royalty. SAMRO collects those royalties from radio stations & pays them to the people who wrote the song. One spin of your song on a prominent station like Kfm or 947 […]
Dear Pfanani Lishivha, Last week something remarkable happened. SAMPRA lost a really big client: WOOLWORTHS. But through the power of social media, we won them back. Woolworths has recently fallen on tough times financially & understandably have been trying to find ways to save money. One of the decisions they made this year was to […]
You may have heard that SABC is finally starting to pay back the R250million in royalties owed to musicians, so I thought now is a good time to shed some light on how to actually get your royalties. If you’re a musician, I’m confident that by the end of this article you will know a […]
I refuse to let the SABC exploit & play any of my music until they start paying artists what’s owed to them. I recently became a member of South African Music Performance Rights Association (SAMPRA) who are in charge for paying artists needle time royalties, including session musicians i.e. the guitarist or drummer behind the scenes who […]
Last week was probably one of my best weeks as an indie artist! I released two songs: 1. Mmu$i Maimane which racked up 800k views across platforms & made the news & 2. Sugarman ft. Mathew Gold which charted at #2 on the iTunes charts. Both songs were turned down by major labels, but I released them […]
We’ve been jamming this song at the live shows for quite some time now, so it feels good to finally put it out into the world! Thank you to everyone who’s listened, commented, shared so far. We appreciate all the support! Watch it here: This is my first proper release under my independent label “Kiff […]
K Day has always been on our bucketlist of gigs to play, so we were very excited when we finally got the invite this year. We pulled out all the stops, inviting the dancers from the “You Say You Love Me” music video (Manila von Teez, Maxine Wild & Jayde) to join us for the […]
Hadeda is one of those songs that doesn’t just belong to me. It is a song for the people! That is why I’ve decided I can’t just keep the sound files to myself. I need to share them with the world. So if you’re a producer & would like to remix HADEDA, now is […]
Ya no look here charna, The Kiffness has been sending messages to the Oxford Dictionary society for lank years now telling them they better flippen’ recognise the word “kiff” brah, but they always tuned “nort brah, that word is miff”. But luckily there was a South African who moved to England because he heard his […]
