The 10 Best Kwaito Producers

Get to know the the 10 most notable old school kwaito producers.

Zwai Bala produced most of TKZee's hits. Photo by Sabelo Mkhabela.

Zwai Bala

Photo by Sabelo Mkhabela.

Zwai Bala did something phenomenal when he took the Swedish rock band Europe's massive hit "The Final Countdown" and turned into yet another massive South African hit "Shibobo" by TKZee, a trio he is part of.

Zwai Bala kept most of his production in-house, producing almost exclusively for TKZee and its affiliates. TKZee added a hip-hop element into kwaito, even blending their music as the self-created genre they called "guz."

His best and most progressive body of work to date has to be TKZee's groundbreaking classic album Halloween (1997), which, after 20 years in existence, is still loved by South African music lovers of all ages.

Almost every TKZee hit is the work of Zwai Bala. And for a group that has as many hits as they do, Bala sure is a special talent, and one that sits perfectly among the legends of not just kwaito but South African music as a whole, especially since he has produced other genres.

Notable Productions

TKZee "Palafala"