UNDERWORRA is a younger Rwandan music collective that’s amongst these taking lead within the hip hop music scene, by making sturdy energetic lyrical melodies that received the eye and admiration of many poetry lovers.
The group which consists of 4 artistes equivalent to Mazo, Kimzer, Chakratang and Banno, joined the music trade in 2017, throughout their final yr of Highschool at Inexperienced Hills Academy.
Based on Mazo, members of the group originated from a friendship of a few years between them, and music solely got here later because of their deep curiosity in all arts, together with fantastic arts and graphic design.
For him, what make their sound distinctive is their completely different backgrounds and upbringings.
“I, having grown up overseas in Germany and Belgium, Kimzer having origins in Tanzania and Chakratang being half German is what translate properly our music, as a result of we put collectively completely different cultures into our sounds,” he stated.
“One other frequent denominator is that we’re all Rwandans,” he added.
Based on the members of the group, throughout the starting levels of their artistic journey, they took music as a pastime as they launched a handful of singles for a pair years, and took the time to determine their signature experimental and various sounds and magnificence.
It wasn’t till the outbreak of Covid-19 early in 2020 that the group began recording and mixing their very own songs, which introduced forth the beginning of their multi-media home and studio YNK Studio, the place they created and launched their debut full size mixtape dubbed “Midnight”.
Songs like ‘Letter’, ‘Written in Drill’, and ‘You or Me’ propelled the group to a degree of publicity that made them revered within the music scene.
Throughout the creation of the method, they began working with their supervisor Teta Tecla and first in-house producer from Baltimore within the USA, JoMà.
The music group has featured with a lot of Kigali new hottest abilities equivalent to Capitallinda, Kenny Ok-Shot, Zed, Paintedblvck, ET, Vinxi, 99 Gang and Arnaud Grey to call a couple of.
In anticipation of their debut album, Underworra has generated extra noise than ever earlier than and was a part of Trappish mega live performance that thrilled music lovers final week.
