Biography

Kwani Experience, also known as The Most Famous Unknown Band, is a group from Johannesburg, South Africa. Their alias was taken from a 2005 Blink Magazine feaure of the same title. Its members came from different parts and intersections of South Africa but mainly from Soweto and some have been living in Belgium, Canada and Norway. Their music is The Mudaland Funk, an Afro-Funk masala that draws from all their backgrounds and influences such as Indi-genius, Isqathamiya, Rap, Maskandi, Jazz and Other. The sound is no reference to but indirectly related to Prophets Of Da City’s Muthaland Funk K.E. was formed in 2003 as a Jazz experiment that quickly morphed into a jam band with former students of the Federated Union Of Black Arts (FUBA), National School of The Arts (N.S.A) and the inclusion of new personnel the in late 2003/early 2004. They won the 2004 Standard Bank Totally Jazzed Contest, which led to the release of their debut album ‘The Birth Of The Mudaland Funk in 2005 and ‘Live After Birth’ in 2007. Although bursting onto the scene as an octet, with changes in personnel the band became a septet then finally a sextet, until their sabbatical in 2012.