User:African Army Music

85% of all Award-Winning Music in South Africa is produced by 5% of the producers in the same industry. When you understand that you begin to realise the power in modern cultural evolution that these elite music producers have in smaller markets like these, and it is that realisation that pushed Stuie Songo to create the record label now called 'African Army Music.'

African Army Music is built on an idea. The idea that African music does not have to sound like a Lion King soundtrack or a black magic ceremony in a dark forest animated by quick flickers of a bon fire. Africans in so many parts of Africa are fully modernised, Mercedes driving; iPhone using; condom wearing- world class citizens. Why then should African music continue to lean on tribal stereotypes that ill represent such a large percentage of us??!

And yet, they are still very traditional, cultural people. They go to work and Skype all day, and still may see a traditional healer in the evening for, say, sickness X. Africans are more the intersection than any one subset, and African Army Music seeks to represent that intersection in a fully modern yet undeniably African sound. The results have garner much critical acclaim.

In 2012, founder member and long time industry producer, Stuie The Kid completed his debut Album, African Arogance 1.0, which is slated for a first quarter release in 2013 as the first of an Epic African influenced Hip-hop Trilogy.

Future plans are still very secretive at this point but African Army Music has been linked with international performance force Live Nation and several American major labels.

-African Army Music is a record label that was established in August 2012, that focuses on modernising African Youth Music for a global audience-

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