By Mdubasa | 2022-11-27
The music industry seems like a beacon of hope to women everywhere and society at large.
We’re not short on female artists to look up to these days, from Velemseni to Mandisa Mamba, Mvelo and Semusa, highlighting that it is possible to achieve gender diversity and equality.
Women locally have over the years gradually taken over the music industry, especially as vocalists.
I strongly believe it is important for women to be represented in the dance music scene, more especially for the deep house movement.
The truth is if the 'Females' feel and approve with anything everyone moves with it. Females are very influential and they define how the perspective of whatever they believe in looks like.
I would love to see more females being introduced to the deep house genre.
If you look at what Oscar Mbo has done for the deep house genre, he gave it a bit of hype, a sense of fashion to it. His ambience attracted female followers and the pioneers of this movement should have taken advantage of this phase.
Over the past few years, we have seen quite a reasonable balance in gender equality in the deejaying circle. A majory of DJs in the country have opted for Amapiano, Gcom and hip hop.
The big question is, why are they negclecting deep house music?
From the top of my head I can only think of two Deep/Soulful house DJ; DJs Expo and Phenominal and that worries me. We always complain about the lack of support kakhulu in events but have we been orthodox in finding solutions.
According to a new study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, women lag behind men as artists, but the problem is particularly severe when it comes to fields such as songwriting, producing and engineering.
The study, which was funded by Spotify, examined the artists, songwriters and producers credited on songs that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts. According to their count, less than a quarter of the artists were women. Over the past 10 years, that number has been stagnant at 21 per cent.
Over the past decade, women only make up 12.7 per cent of songwriters. The study also counted producers of select years, and found that women made up a paltry 2.8 per cent.
From the statistics which I sourced from sosmusicmedia.com and npr.org it is evident that globally women do lag behind males. South Africa, which is regarded as the capital house deep house music has a number of female DJs who have been dominating and doing well.
We recently hosted DJs Soulbeen and Judy Jay in the Kingdom and the reception fro both these DJs was overwhelming.
Tsine lakhaya isala kuphi? Again, i ask myself, have we done enough to introduce and welcome female deejayings? Are they being exploited and end up giving up their dream on becoming DJs?
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