BOTSWANA club DJ Kenneth Matlholwa is slowly tapping into the South African market.
Known as DJ Cany, he is a professional in the entertainment business. He ensures a proper mix of music and entertainment as he creates an ambience of taste, talent and celebration.
Having established a credible fan base in his own country, the disc juggler, who is also a qualified quantity surveyor, now wants to introduce himself to Mzansi.
DJ Cany says he intends to bring a different flavour to South Africa.
"My playing is influenced by deep house, tech house, progressive, electro, jazz, pop rock, hip-hop, R&B, kwaito and Durban kwaito among others. I am versatile and can play anything," he says.
House music is big in Botswana, he says.
"Botswana has surpassed any country in terms of house consumers in relation to population. Though the market is still very small and many people listen to other genres, about one percent follows house music. As a DJ, you rely on performances rather than on album sales," he says.
His romance with house started at high school when he was spinning discs at parties in 1996. He continued while studying for his BSc Quantity Survey degree at the University of Botswana in 1999. When he did his honours at Reading University in the UK, he realised that he wanted to be a professional deejay.
"I worked as a presenter for a hip-hop show doubling as a club DJ and later became part of the commercials-production team. I enrolled for a part-time sound engineering course," he says.
In 2004,he started X3MIX Records in Gaborone, which is also registered with Recording Industry of South Africa.
Botswana's DJ Cany eyes South African market
BOTSWANA club DJ Kenneth Matlholwa is slowly tapping into the South African market.
Known as DJ Cany, he is a professional in the entertainment business. He ensures a proper mix of music and entertainment as he creates an ambience of taste, talent and celebration.
Having established a credible fan base in his own country, the disc juggler, who is also a qualified quantity surveyor, now wants to introduce himself to Mzansi.
DJ Cany says he intends to bring a different flavour to South Africa.
"My playing is influenced by deep house, tech house, progressive, electro, jazz, pop rock, hip-hop, R&B, kwaito and Durban kwaito among others. I am versatile and can play anything," he says.
House music is big in Botswana, he says.
"Botswana has surpassed any country in terms of house consumers in relation to population. Though the market is still very small and many people listen to other genres, about one percent follows house music. As a DJ, you rely on performances rather than on album sales," he says.
His romance with house started at high school when he was spinning discs at parties in 1996. He continued while studying for his BSc Quantity Survey degree at the University of Botswana in 1999. When he did his honours at Reading University in the UK, he realised that he wanted to be a professional deejay.
"I worked as a presenter for a hip-hop show doubling as a club DJ and later became part of the commercials-production team. I enrolled for a part-time sound engineering course," he says.
In 2004,he started X3MIX Records in Gaborone, which is also registered with Recording Industry of South Africa.
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