Some have heard about him but we know everyone needs to know the name Young DLC. Lets get to know the talented producer making waves in the music industry. 

Born in Harare-Zimbabwe, the dance music DJ/Producer, and songwriter is well known for his Coke Studio Africa gig, as a two time resident Producer (2017 & 2019), where he produced majority of the songs from Nairobi, Kenya. Through Coke Studio Africa, the biggest music TV show in the continent, Young DLC has worked with African music heavyweights including the likes
of Patoranking(Nigeria), Olamide(Nigeria), AKA(SA), Shekinah(SA), Yemi Alade(Nigeria), Kiff No Beat(Côte d’Ivoire), Rayvanny (Tanzania), Kaligraph Jones (Kenya), Nasty C(SA), Runtown(Nigeria), Mr Bow(Mozambique), Rophnan (Ethiopia), Eddy Kenzo (Uganda), and many more artistes featured on the show.

Young DLC’s big break was when he was casted as a guest producer on Coke Studio SA 2016 where he produced for hip hop artist, Aewon Wolf and pop artist, Jade McDonalds, on a song titled “Run Away” which had high rotation on many South African commercial radio stations. In the same year, Young DLC collaborated with, Sylent Nqo on a upbeat house single titled “Be My Girl” which enjoyed massive airplay on Algoa FM and peaked at number 5, spending 15 weeks on the charts.

Young DLC was also part of the electronic music production duo called Matta Motto (Young DLC and Tristan Coetzee) and they released two projects with Gigi Laymane(SA) and Praiz(Nigeria). Young DLC co-produced Mlindo’s Nge Thanda Wena with DJ Maphorisa, featuring Shasha, which generated more than 3 million streams on YouTube without an official video. Through the several production credits and chart-topping collaborations that Young DLC accumulated he ended up getting signed to Sony Publishing South Africa as a producer and songwriter in 2017. In 2018 Young DLC produced Danny K’s: Things We Do and December Streets & JR’s: SummerTime Vibe. Both singles reaching top 5 on SA radio charts.