About
Sihle Magcaba better known as De Major a house artist specialising better with tribal and Afro house genre. He is a self taught producer from Marianhill/ Madiba Valley, Durban KwaZulu-Natal. De Major first fell in love with music at an early age, he was passionate about singing hence in high school De Major enrolled himself to music classes which gave him a good ear for music and the undoubtedly dexterity to create orchestrated flaming sounds to keep listeners salivating for more. De Major’s personal quote, he believes that “ MUSIC IS LIFE, THATS WHY OUR HEARTS HAVE BEAT AND WE ALL BELONG TO THE RHYTHM.”Motivated by the biggest names in the house music industry such as Culoe De Song, Blaq Soul, Sobz, SoulPoizen and Soule Villain to name a few. Inspired, De Major released his first Extended Play (EP) on his birthday titled Traveller original mix feat Lizwi. This song went viral and it’s had 8 and more remixes, in the early stage of 2017 kusasa also did a remix that saw the song to be featured on the Traxsource top 200 best selling Afro house of 2017 as well as being licensed to Defected Records on their Ibiza 2018 compilation mixed by Sam Divine. This song was also featured by the powerful Dj Black Coffee in the Ibiza tour. Powerful as the song maybe it also hit one million YouTube views for De Major feat Lizwi- Traveller (kusasa & Quetoenik remix) 2019
De Major feat Lizwi Traveller took the house industry by storm in the same year (28 August 2019) channel 326 Trace Africa broadcasted the exclusive music video. Ever since then De Major never sets his eyes on the rear view mirror, De Major went on released his Extended Play (EP) project titling “WONDERS of NATURE”. De Major believes that best orchestrated sounds are compiled by the wonders of nature and everything falls to the universal rhythm, which then creates music that feeds the soul.
Apart from producing and performing at gigs De Major has a radio show called CITY LIGHTS every Thursday from 15:00 till 17:00 at Resurrected Youth Radio ( www. RESURRECTEDYOUTHRADIO.CO.ZA) believing that music speaks a language that everybody can relate to.
De Major has been at privilege on work with artist and producer whom he has a closer relationship with the likes of DarQKnight, Jacky Page, Lungi Mandebele, Futhi Mahlasela, SoulPoizen, Native Tribe, Thab De Soul and Deep Questic . On the recent project the young producer / Dj has worked with DarQKnight who’s also a producer and a Dj. DarQKnight recently released a song titled “Go” feat Lungi Mandebele, due to De Major being versatile he did a remix on that Song. DarQKnight has also played a huge role in the song titled “Imvula” which featured Lungi Mandebele and Futhi Mahlasela which is a project that will be released late this year . De Major has also collaborated with Jack Page titled Rise and Fall which also will released late 2019 as part of the big project to place his signature on the music industry
The young producer/ Dj is paving his future not for fame but rather build a legacy’ that will be historical and he plans to do it with music that speak to the soul.
Music speaks to soul when words fail, the young producer is very fond of such music that speaks to the soul and his inspired by William Shakespear “ if music be the food of love , play on , give me excess of it, that surfeiting , the appetite may sicken and so die .
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