Alex budding musicians urged to register their pieces
After suffering the theft of their music pieces on several occasions, amapiano music duo of Kairo Roughly and LoGo Roughly have urged budding artists to register their pieces before approaching recording studios.
A hustling pair of amapiano musicians in Alexandra is seeking corporate sponsors to help rescue and advance their music career.
Aphiwe Mankayi (27) goes by the stage name of LoGo Roughly and Kamogelo Moqayi (24) is known by his stage name Kairo Roughly. They form the local amapiano music duo known in the township as Rough Inside.
Rough Inside was birthed after the duo, along with Kairo’s brother, formed Getto Boys in 2012 and were later joined by five other band members but split up four years later when squabbling around gig monies came in between them.
Kairo’s brother and the five other members of the band went their separate ways while Kairo and LoGo stuck together to give birth to the duo band, Rough Inside, which speaks to the rough time they underwent during the times of Getto Boys.
The Rough Inside duo is soon to release an EP that goes by the same name and mimics their journey and experiences when suddenly they squabbled and were eventually divided by the little money that had come in from the various gigs they had undertaken as a band.
“We are currently trying to organise gigs to promote the EP which we hope to drop sometime in March,” said Kairo of the Alex-born and bred duo, whose history of coming together is rather interesting. LoGo, who lives with his parents on 18th Avenue and just lost his dad over the festive season, got a job way back in 2012 as a shopkeeper on 17th Avenue close to Kairo’s home.
“There used to be a boy that kept on pestering me at the shop all the time for ‘inkawuza’ [township slang for cigarette] and when I made enquiries, I discovered that it was Kairo’s brother. I then encouraged him to join us in the band and he brought with him the five other guys,” LoGo said.
In 2019, LoGo said he and Kairo met Acute Dose, who introduced them to amapiano music as they were an Afropop and hip-hop band and ‘we got hooked and we have never looked back as it is working well for us’.
Kairo appealed to the corporate world to help rescue and advance their amapiano music by making donations or sponsoring them with recording equipment and studio facilities to record their own music and that of other artists wishing to use the facility.
