Da Quteness makes mark
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | Monday June 6, 2022 06:00
In a recent interview where he shared his music journey with Arts & Culture, Da Cuteness, who is also a producer, artiste, and remixer said he started music production in 2010. He explained that he used to be a rapper before he learnt the production part of all music genres. The talented man became a professional music producer in 2015 when he was residing in Gaborone where he founded his stable called Beatfactory Music where he met a lot of producers including his music mentor, Deejay Bino.
He said he learnt a lot from Deejay Bino in terms of music production, and in the process built his name locally especially in the Hip Hop and Dance music production. As time went on, he said he then collaborated his stable with Deejay Bino’s Touch making Beatfactory Music under Deejay Bino’s Touch Records.
He went on to release/feature songs solo and with local and international artistes like De General, Sasa Klaas, Deejay Bino, Donn, DJ Rex, DJ Kops, MainoBdub, TradeMark (SA), DJ Nova (SA), DJ Vivi, Kammy and Oncxy.
“I released my first solo album in 2020 dubbed ‘Hello EP’, which had nine songs all produced, mixed and mastered by me under BeatFactory Musiq/Deejay Binos Touch Records/Blankcanvas. My latest single is ilevel, which I featured the late Dramaboi, Tefo Bright and Benny Hotkeys.
The song was produced at Blankcanvas Records. It is from an album which will drop around October this year called EarGasm,” he said.
Da Quteness writes his songs most of the time except songs which he featured some other artistes. Since he dropped his first album Hello, he received so much love from the public. He explained that his songs played in almost all the radio stations country wide. He said he performed at some TV shows like Flava Dome and others. Da Quteness also said he marketed his music through social media sites most of the time adding that his music is also on iTunes.
He added that his music was different because it combined the taste of South African Amapiano and that the local Amapiano and he also put a guitar on some of his songs making it different.
“At first there was a time where I could not get studio time because my parents did not believe in me so I would struggle to get studio time. When you are an upcoming artist things are not simple as you can think because you will be trying to make people listen to your music and it’s not simple to convince the radio stations to play your jams so it was one hell of a ride. Our local market is growing slow and to get event organisers to book you is a struggle because they give you a mileage at a lower cost. They are not willing to help us as artistes to grow our industry,” he said.
His said the biggest lesson throughout his music career was that no matter how hard it gets, you must never give up. He added that the road was not long and not easy but they must raise their heads up and keep going.