Uncle Waffles
Swazi DJ · Eswatini · On the map · Musicians · Born 2000 · age 26
A DJ who turned a viral dance clip into a sound - Uncle Waffles rode amapiano's global breakout from the booth, moving as much as she mixes. Billboard calls her the genre's princess; the platinum plaques say she earned it.
Uncle Waffles is read about 142 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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, I tend to use my dance moves to translate the music, so you’re going to see what the song says even if you don’t understand it
This makes me feel the way I’ve always thought my purpose would make me feel,” she says. “It made me feel whole
About this person
Lungelihle Zwane was born 30 March 2000 in Eswatini and crossed into South Africa with a deck and a gift for reading the room. She became Uncle Waffles in the amapiano wave, the piano-house hybrid that rewired club sound across the continent, and her sets blurred the line between selector and performer - she danced behind the decks, the clips spread, the bookings followed. Her debut single "Tanzania" hit number one in South Africa and went platinum seven times over. The genre found its face in a producer who understood that amapiano was always supposed to move you twice.
