ABOUT JONES

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Who is Baffa Jones?

Many artists struggle to establish their musical identity, tediously trying out all styles in the pursuit of what fits them or works. Jones, it would seem is no different, but he embraces this pursuit, because it’s in this pursuit that he can best define who he is, in the creation of diversity. He doesn’t make the music, the music makes him.

Yes, he is a house music aficionado, but one cannot forget the wide stance that is house music. Many are happy just settling for that one sound and that’s great cause it works for them, but when your heroes range from Ray Charles to Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder to R Kelly, Bone Thugs to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Daft Punk to Armand ven Helden, Soul Brothers, Lady Smith Black Mambazo, Bra Hugh to the Osunlades, Black Coffees and Axwells then you can be forgiven for taking a road less travelled.

“I just can’t stomach doing the same thing and I’ve come to realise being broad is indeed who I am”

A lot of people have been confused thinking Baffa is American or even British. Far from it, Baffa is a resident of the Eastern Cape in South Africa and simply has a taste for music that is heavily influenced by the world’s sounds and environments. A master of some and a dabbler in others, he’s constantly experimenting and does not like to be pigeon holed as a type of artist.

BORN in the former Transkei in Umtata, Baffa took up music at about age 10 when he moved to Queenstown. Here he specialised in the piano and woodwind instruments [hence the flutes in his Afro House Deep Stuff]. However when he had graduated from high school and was about to embark on the tertiary path, he had already stopped playing instruments as at the time it all just seemed like a pipe dream.

Until his introduction to Reason 1 [his first and true (now full DAW)]. And as an electrical engineering student, the interest and amazement with this (then new) technology allowed him to assimilate it very quickly. His friends started bobbing their heads to his sounds and soon after they’d actually dance, but he took no real notice until someone said to him one day,

“I played your track in a club and it blew the house down”

GAME OVER!!! As they say the rest is history

From Deep to Afro house, Tech and Electro, Soulful vocal he will, as he always says,

“Try it at least once”

Plying his trade from a small semi-rural town called Queenstown; technology has definitely favoured this son of Africa. Able to now feed the world with his magnificent sound, unabated and unhindered by the politics of music distribution.

So go ahead and get in touch with him, his most social networks in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.