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A reality-TV dance contestant emerges as a singular modern-pop force.

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Tyla creates music that is at once indelibly South African and ambitiously global. It’s a unique balance, one moulded by the sounds she heard as a child growing up in Johannesburg. Not only did she listen to plenty of homegrown music, including kwaito and Afropop, but she was also exposed to ’90s American R&B greats like Aaliyah and Brandy. In 2019, she teamed up with South African producer Kooldrink for “Getting Late”, a mesmerising realisation of Tyla’s love for bridging styles. The killer rhythm track is rooted in amapiano, and the singer’s translucent vocals reveal stunning versatility: hypnotic enough for dance music yet packed with pop’s effortless catchiness and R&B’s undiluted soulfulness. Tyla swirled all of those elements together seamlessly for <i>TYLA</i>, her 2024 eponymous debut that crystallised her status as an emerging global superstar. Powered by the irresistible “Water”, not to mention the Gunna- and Skillibeng-aided “Jump”, the project proved her ability to unite people and genres on the global embassy of the dance floor.