Loud & Proud 2025:
Toya Delazy | Earth Agency

Toya Delazy is a London-based singer, producer, pianist, dancer, and performer, who is originally from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

By IQ | 18 June 2025

AGENT: Naomi Palmer | Earth Agency   Toya Delazy is a London-based singer, producer, pianist, dancer, and performer, who is originally from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Her sound fuses techno, drum & bass, and Zulu lyricism into something bigger and representative of the emerging Afrorave genre.

From hefty 200bpm pounding to extraordinarily complex polyrhythms, her beats and rhymes are multilingual, multicultural, and multidimensional.

Her music draws inspiration from South African Gqom, a subgenre of house music originating from Durban, while also…

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