Home › Entities › music_genre › kwaito

kwaito

subgenre of house music from South Africa
Intangible music_genre Q956717
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

kwaito

Summary

kwaito is a music genre[1]. kwaito draws 709 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #394 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • kwaito's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • kwaito is a type of house music[4].
  • kwaito is a type of music of South Africa[5].
  • kwaito's Commons category is recorded as Kwaito music[6].
  • kwaito's country of origin is recorded as South Africa[7].
  • January 1, 1998 marks the founding of kwaito[8].
  • kwaito's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kwaito[9].
  • kwaito's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[10].

Body

Definition and Type

kwaito's instance of is recorded as music genre[3]. Recorded subclass of include house music[4] and music of South Africa[5].

Origins

January 1, 1998 marks the founding of kwaito[8].

Why It Matters

kwaito draws 709 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #394 of 1,946).[2] kwaito has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

Related Entities

South Africa

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). kwaito. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/kwaito
MLA “kwaito.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/kwaito.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_kwaito_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{kwaito}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/kwaito}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): kwaito — https://4ort.xyz/entity/kwaito (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/kwaito · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → —
    Inception → +1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → music genre
    Subclass of → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007551693705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.