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Amapiano, a Zulu or Xhosa word loosely translated to "the pianos", is a subgenre of house music that emerged in South Africa in the mid-2010s.

It is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music characterised by synths and wide percussive basslines.

Deep house is a subgenre of house music that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with the lush chords of 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music.

Its origins are attributed to the early recordings of Larry Heard (aka Mr.

Fingers), including his influential track "Can You Feel It".

Hip hop soul is a subgenre of contemporary R&B music, most popular during the early and mid 1990s, which fuses R&B or soul singing with hip hop musical production.

The subgenre had evolved from a previous R&B subgenre, new jack swing, which had incorporated hip-hop influences into R&B music.

By contrast, hip hop soul is, as described in The Encyclopedia of African American Music, "quite literally soul singing over hip hop grooves".

Maskandi is a form of Zulu folk music, originally associated with migrant workers, that is evolving with South African society.

Often characterised by a picking guitar style which draws on a variety of historical influences it also has an important social function with players being given sanction to publicly criticise powerful people.

Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs.

It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s.

It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day.