It doesn’t take much to fall in love with Aero Manyelo’s music. Just ask global DJ juggernauts, Dixon and Damian Lazarus who dropped his track “Mooki” during a Day Zero set in Mexico early in January.

Dial back a decade and it was Manyelo’s “Mexican Girl” that caught the attention of South African music industry heavyweight, Oskido. He quickly added the track to his Oskido’s Church Grooves 7 compilation, helping secure the song the number one spot on Yfm’s Hot 9@9 chart, and some heavy rotation on the radio station.

Over the past decade, Manyelo’s career has been rapidly gaining momentum on the back of a string of releases - the four-track EP Home (Sound Pellegrino, 2013) and the albums Kasi Vibes ( Out Here Records, 2013), Herbs Abroad (Akwaaba Music, 2014) and Dictionary of Herbs (Herbel3Records, 2014). .