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SA-born dancer Nqobilé on touring with Drake and stealing Davido's heart in If music video

, South African-born dancer Nqobilé Danseur went on to tour with Drake and share the stage with Rihanna at the BRIT Awards.music video, which has amassed more than 111 million views on YouTube.

"I was very much into my culture, and the popular music and sound back then in the 90s was kwaito – the inspiration to what we know now as amapiano. I was super obsessed with that style of music, especially with my favourite artist then Lebo Mathosa," she says about her teenage years living in South Africa.

As a child, Nqobilé says, she was"super energetic" and enjoyed entertaining family and friends with dancing, singing and"goofing around". "I miss those carefree days, also when I had access to new South African music straightaway instead of, now, waiting to hear it once it's reached this side of the pond," she says.

Nqobilé most recently returned to South Africa in 2017 to shoot a music video, and she says the welcome was"incredible and truly overwhelming"."I hadn't been home since I left, so that trip was even more special for me," she says.

 

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