King Hero

Born in Polokwane, South Africa, raised just outside the city by a music meister father and a spiritual mother, Hero fell in love with music at an early age. Spending time with his father who used to play a lot of 70s & 80s jazz, Afro Pop, disco, R&B etc, combined with the gospel music played by his mother, they forged a rhythmic, soulful and intensively melodic legend in the making.
Started making music in 2010 with a group of friends the Snazzy Beavers Family to being a solo artist in 2018 after releasing a combined mix tape called I Am That I Am, promoting shows and grabbing a lot of local attention. His latest release DANKO LEKOMPO EP embodies a work of evolution, one can now describe him as 'too chamelionic to be tidily arranged into one category'. He's a LEKOMPO artist inspired by sounds and stories from all over. His sound is theurapatic, calm, enlightening and full of catchy raps and choruses, and has furthermore developed a more edgy and rowdy approach.
Some of his biggest inspirations hail from Lionel Richie, Tracy Chapman, Brenda Fassie, Makhadzi, King Monada, Chico Thwala to Kygo, Burna Boy, Drake, Cassper Nyovest. He's worked with numerous artists from local and abroad, definitely anticipating to work with more. "Music is my form of survival, and its evolution is inevitable."