Meet The Soil: a four-member a cappella singing group whose music can best be described as Kasi Soul. The members of The Soil strive to fuse their voices to deliver melodic and harmonious messages that are aimed at uplifting and healing souls all around the world.
The first member of the group exists in a spiritual form as The Creator of all. The other three members of the group take a physical form: Buhle Mda, Luphindo Ngxanga and Ntsika Fana Ngxanga.
The Soil claim they are simply channels of the songs which they believe come to them from a sacred place where they serve merely as mediums that help carry the message through.
The Soil’s self-titled album will surely take you back to the time when the Creator sculpted the skies and the land, covering it with ... the soil. The group's music bears testimony to the fact that God created man using the very soil, and thousands of years later He gave a voice to The Soil. It is through this belief that The Soil invites you to listen with your ear to the ground as you might hear the sound.
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Defined as Kasi Soul, the group's music features (in a contemporary township style) an eclectic mix of musical genres such as jazz, hip hop, Afro-pop and Afro-soul). The group's musical style is evident in its rhythmic vocal bass line, with constant beat-boxing – a distinctive feature in the music – while the remaining voices contribute to the choral and polyphonic accompaniment.
Equal and up to the challenge, each of the group members takes turns in solo vocal performance to display their most beautiful rendition of the melodic verses embedded in each song.
Their latest album is a reflection of the group's aspiration for a world full of joy, hope, faith, goodwill and love – a message carried out with each performance and each song.
Since the release of their debut album on June 6, 2011, they have achieved the following, to mention but a few points:
- The Soil won Best Soul artist at the SATMA awards 2012.
- The Soil's debut album has sold more than platinum and is still going strong.
- The Soil has more than 200 000 fans on facebook.
- The Soil's track from their debut album Sedilaka is featured as a soundtrack on the movie titled Dark Tide staring Halle Berry.
- They recorded all the songs on an SABC1 sitcom called My Perfect Family.
- The Soil performed on six shows as the opening act with the renowned group Freshlyground on their 10-year Celebration tour.
- On 15 March 2013 The Soil performed at the Africa Now festival at the Apollo Theatre Music Café in New York.
- The Soil are currently in the UK, performing daily from 7:10 pm till 8:10 pm at the Edinburgh Festival from 1 to 26 August.
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Hi The soil
Kindly please check my lyrics out
Title: Harder then they know
They are a mixture of both english and venek.