User:Corne'De Baptiste

Name: Cornelius

Last name: Dlamini

Gender: Male

Age:21

Origin: Pretoria

Occupation: DJ/Producer

Stage Name: Corne'De Baptiste

Contacts :0822576487/0797489847

Twitter Handle: CorneDe_Baptist

Facebook: Corne'De Baptiste

Email Address: corneliussa118@gmail.com

Musician, Producer, DJ, Pianist, Promoter, and Deep Tech music enthusiast alike, Cornelius Dlamini hails out of Ga-Moeka, North West Province. He realized his passion for all things in house music since 2010. He started DJing at an early age of 15years and he was inspired by Black Motion through all out his musical career.

He's well known to Fans and fellow DJ's as  Corne'De Baptiste,like any other nickname out there Corne is short for Cornelius,this was by fans ever since. The name "Corne'De Baptiste" came about at school with Gilbert The French and Kgaoza members of his group called "Corrupted Kings of Sound". Started realising the passion for all things house music since 2011 then started to collect classic compilation by various deejays like Mbuso, Dj Fresh, Vinny Da Vince, Oskido,Black Coffee,DJ Cleo and Dj Christos.

Corne'De Baptiste was exposed to Virtual DJ that exposed him to matching beats using a PC. In the year 2013, reality set came through at Kanana's Kies (Ga-Moeka) that is where he started to polish the craft under the mentorship of DJ Sphola and Semi-Dee. He tried to join "Shinondo Entertainment" later in 2014,which was a movement of young DJs/Producer in the hood ran by Slash Maluleke from Ga-Motla,North West.

However, the music needed to take a break for a while, after Matric in 2016, Corne'De Baptiste got to learn the skills of playing CDJ's perfectly/completely. DJ Sphola and Semi-Dee were resident DJ'S at a spot called Joe's Pub and the helped a lot in improving the skills for Corne to be able to play like a pro.

He later attended classes for DJ's called DJ 101 at Soul Candi in 2017 under the Mentorship of Thabani Ncube (thabani@boston.co.za) and DigitalMusic Composition and Production under the mentorship of Karabo Rapotu (karaborapotu@boston.co.za). The classes helped him in mastering how to play with CDJ's and expanded the knowledge of deejaying.

He was forced to become a Producer as he used to love the work that was done by his fellow friend from Tertiary, Itumeleng Selematsela also know as Hunnid Hits. He is one of the best producers he knew and Itumeleng Taught him everything from scratch. He started expanding in the knowledge of production now he's busy with some work that will be dropped soon.

He has been on Sosh Radio,BMH Radio,Ikwekwezi and Alex FM for a live mega mix. He has been doing mixes named The Commandments (Mixed By Corne'De Baptiste).

Currently he is a Producer of a new Saturday Show @Alex_FM called "The House Party" with Moshaya Evans Maja aka Baba Shaizen,which runs from 22:00 - 00:00.