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Tyla Tyla performs onstage in a fringed outfit with knee-high boots, holding a microphone, with two backup dancers behind her under dramatic stage lighting.
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Tyla South African singer Tyla attending the Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Awards in New York City, 2024.

Tyla

South African singer
Also known as: Tyla Laura Seethal
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Tyla (born January 30, 2002, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African singer who gained international recognition when a video of a live performance of her 2023 single “Water,” featuring the bacardi, a contemporary South African dance style, went viral on social media. She dubbed her music “popiano,” a mix of pop with amapiano, the South African dance music genre, with origins in jazz and house music, that originated in the mid-2010s. Tyla has been...

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