Who is: Young DLC

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.

Young DLC worked with Zimbabwean top artist, Jah Prayzah on his 2021 album Gwara. Two of their songs (Porovhoka & Svovi) have over a million views on YouTube. In 2022, Young DLC collaborated on an EP with Bryan K (Zim) with two songs that made it to the Zim radio charts. Young DLC also collaborated with the former NAMA Awards, outstanding male musician in Zimbabwe, TiGonzi on a project titled “Mufaro” which was also in Zimbabwean radio charts.
This year (2023) has seen Young DLC composing soundtracks for the Disney+ animated series, Kizazi Moto: Generation of Fire. Amongst his own releases are also two singles with music videos. One featuring the Zimbabwean top artist, Nutty O. The energetic house song titled “Unozviziva” enjoyed airplay on all major Zimbabwean radio stations and peaked at number 2 on StarFM, spending 8 weeks on the Zim top 10 charts.

 

With a forward focus on house music and DJ-ing, Young DLC continues to make regional and international waves across the electronic music scene. However, with his versatility in production style, he continues to collaborate with different artists in what he describes as “Afro-flavored electronic beats”.

Credits
• BET Africa’s ISONO opening sequence
• CNN’s Burna Boy documentary (features Young DLC’s productions)
• Two KPM Albums (Under EMI UK) Afrobites and KPM Amapiano (Top 5 Downloads since
released)
• Mnet TV shows, The Voice SA and Celebrity Game Night.
• Young DLC’s music has been used for adverts for:
Oros, Google, Stanbic, KFC and Nandos.
• Young DLC also releases self-titled singles independently
under a distribution deal with Next Music (2022).

Reach Him at:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @YoungDLC_96
Instagram: @YoungDLC96
Facebook: Young DLC
YouTube: Young DLC

10mins with Young DLC

With eight years of commercial music production experience, having had worked on major TV shows and other commercial productions in South Africa and Africa as a whole, Young DLC is considered one of the most in-demand producers in Africa.

Previously focused on working behind the scenes, Young DLC is ready to share his DJ awakening and bringing a truly fresh and unique approach to African house music.

Young Zimbabwe got an opportunity to spend 10mins with Young DLC, one of Zimbabwe’s top producers:

 

Q: Who is Young DLC?

A: DJ and Producer

 

Q: What’s the meaning behind your name?

A: DLC is my initials, which I share with my dad. Hence the Young.

 

Q: What is your musical back ground?

A: My dad had a gospel band and ran a studio in the 2000s

 

Q: Who are some of the artists that inspire you?

A: Too many to mention. But I really appreciate those artists who push music and culture forward in evolution. By bringing a fresh and unique approach to what is already there. Which is what I try to do with my music.

 

Q: Do you have a favourite song that you worked on?

A: Yes, usually my newest projects so it’s always shifting as I keep creating more.

 

Q: What other producers, songwriters and/or artists would you want to work with?

A: A lot actually but I prefer to leave that to providence.

 

Q: How do you like to spend your free time not working on projects or taking care of business matters?

A: It’s really not a thing you turn off and on however I do enjoy readying and journaling. An occasional movie and series.

 

Q: What’s your future plans/ or what would you want your legacy to be? Legacy?

A: Hmmm I suppose it would be participation and contribution to the general realisation that anything is possible. You can dream and achieve your dream.

 

Q: What advice would you give a person trying to make it in the entertainment industry?

A: Work work work on yourself and your craft. Persistence and patience. There are those who try and then there are those who train.

 

Q: How do people get connected with you and book for your services?

A: My socials are always open and I do respond to majority of them.

Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @YoungDLC_96
Instagram: @YoungDLC96
Facebook: Young DLC
YouTube: Young DLC

Friendship Bench

The Friendship Bench is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) registered in Zimbabwe as a Private Voluntary Organization (PVO 12/21) with the Department of Social Service.

 

Our vision is a Friendship Bench within walking distance for all. With this inspiration, our mission is to get people out of kufungisisa – depression & anxiety – by creating safe spaces and a sense of belonging in communities to improve mental wellbeing and enhance quality of life. Guided by our values of empathy and connection, and anchored in over a decade of rigorous research (including a RCT published in the Journal of American Medical Association, JAMA) we have re-imagined the delivery of evidence-based mental healthcare.​

The Friendship Bench is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) registered in Zimbabwe as a Private Voluntary Organization (PVO 12/21) with the Department of Social Service.

 

Our vision is a Friendship Bench within walking distance for all. With this inspiration, our mission is to get people out of kufungisisa – depression & anxiety – by creating safe spaces and a sense of belonging in communities to improve mental wellbeing and enhance quality of life. Guided by our values of empathy and connection, and anchored in over a decade of rigorous research (including a RCT published in the Journal of American Medical Association, JAMA) we have re-imagined the delivery of evidence-based mental healthcare.​

HOW WE WORK
The Friendship Bench clinical team trains community health workers (also known as lay health workers) to provide basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with an emphasis on Problem Solving Therapy, activity scheduling and peer led group support. This task shifting approach means we can deliver an effective, affordable and sustainable solution to bridge the mental health treatment gap at a primary care level.

We follow a blended model which includes face-to-face and online training. The actual training focuses on the below topics.

 

History of the Friendship Bench

Psychoeducation

Basic counselling skills

Mental health literacy

Screening

Problem solving therapy

How to conduct sessions and when to refer

Use of Friendship Bench tool(s)

Self-care and supervision

 

Once training is completed, participants are offered supervision sessions to expand on their clinical skills, learn more about certain mental health topics and to ask for advice on difficult cases. Our supervision goal is to empower community health workers to feel confident to carry out the support work that they do and to be aware of their clients’ and their own needs.

 

We deliver the talk therapy intervention to people with mild to moderate level common mental health disorders, such as anxiety and depression, known locally as ‘kufungisisa’- thinking too much. When people visit the Friendship Bench they are screened with a locally validated tool called the Shona Symptom Questionnaire (SSQ-14). If a person scores above the cut off point, they are suggested to stay and receive the one-on-one problem solving therapy. In practical terms, participants are taught a structured approach to identifying problems and find workable solutions.

 

We are not conventional, our trained CHWs sit with their clients outdoors, under the trees on wooden park benches in discreet safe spaces in the community. During training, a referral pathway is established for cases which are considered ‘red flags’ where a higher level of care is needed.

 

After the one-on-one talk therapy, Friendship Bench clients are introduced to a peer led support group known as Circle Kubatana Tose (CKT), meaning ‘holding hands together’. In these groups clients are connected to others who have sat on the Friendship Bench, received PST and became empowered to solve their own problems. Group members can relate to one another because they tend to come from the same community and have learned about the benefit of empathic listening. This safe space to talk in and be heard contributes to clients’ sense of belonging and reduces stigma surrounding mental health and sharing of personal issues.

 

In the CKT groups, clients are engaged in revenue generating opportunities, learning to crochet items out of recycled plastic bags and old VHS tape ribbon! Some items commonly made and then sold in the community are bags, hats and mats. So beyond the group being a form of ongoing support and behavioural activation, it becomes a vital part of the intervention due to the need for income generation in a country going through socio-economic distress.

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Crossroads Season 2

Crossroads is a show created by Nigel Tha Slick Pastor and co-operation. Season 2 has finished and we bring you all the Episodes  under one roof for your enjoyment and see Zimbabwean talent at it’s best. The story line is based on the following “Life can be unpredictable. Your usual normal can be disturbed by one small event, and lead to a domino of consequences. The choices you make at every crossroad will tell how your story eventually turns out”. 

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SoProfound gives us “The Chamhembe Story”

The history of Zimbabwean music is incomplete without mentioning arguably one of the most pivotal and impactful eras ever. Some like to refer to this time as the urban grooves era and some simply call it “pakauya vapfanha vemaCD”. As big as this movement was there is a huge fog around what it represents, this is seen in the many debates that surround the legacy of this era and it doesn’t help that no one was writing anything as this part of our history was unfolding. At the centre of this time however is Chamhembe, it’s the peak of what this era embodies. In this 5-part series SoProfound interviews some of the key people who made Chamhembe. Prepare for a front-row seat to one of the most impactful moments in Zimbabwean music history. Exciting never heard before stories, the history, influences and insight into some of the moments that shaped Zimbabwean urban music as we now know it.

Includes interviews from Leonard Mapfumo, Roki, Stunner, Take 5 and more…

The series is produced by Intentionally Daring in collaboration with Tnash Creative Studio.

Amapiano Soul4Real Vol. 3

DJ duo Lex and Answer record volume 3 of their Soul4Real sessions.

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Amapiano Soul4Real Vol. 2

DJ duo Lex and Answer record volume 2 of their Soul4Real sessions. We do not own the copyrights to this music. For promotional purposes only.

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Spotlight on “RUDOSON”

One of our main objective is to bring talented people to the forefront and for us all to enjoy their talents. Today we spent time getting to know “Rudoson”, a talented individual who is set to drop his 1st solo project on the 27th February 2023. We had the opportunity to hear the project and it’s amazing, well arranged and balanced with good mix of using our mother language Shona and English. Don’t forget to Like, Share, Subscribe and Follow @Rudoson on all social media platform. 

Rudoson:

  • Born and raised in a small town outside of Harare, “Chi-Town”.
  • 26 year old singer/songwriter and producer .
  • Grew up in a musical environment, directed choirs during and after high school (Regina Coeli High School in Nyanga).
  • Was always an entertainer, did dance battles through out high school and was very athletic. Reached national level with discus throwing.
  • Drew inspiration from the likes of Chris Brown, Brandy, Jacob Collier, Oliver Mtukudzi, Takura, Prayer Soul and many other greats, locally and internationally
  • First released a single in 2021 titled “Night Lights”
  • Have worked with 4life, Milez, Lloyd Soul, Drealnova, Meaken, TMorgan, Nicky the genius