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Grammy Award winning South African singer and songwriter Tyla Laura Seethal, popularly just known by her first name Tyla has revealed how she came up with the choreography for her hit song 'Water'
According to the artist, a lot of things happened by chance. For starters the dance style was not even meant for the type of music that she had developed and second water just happened by chance.
Tyla maintains nothing was planned it was just a spur of the moment kind of thing.
"The dance was actually meant for a different song," started off the 22-year-old Grammy Award winner while speaking to Capital Xtra.
She went on to expound on what she meant by her earlier statement noting;
"Because the dance style is bacardi, it is a popularly dance style in South Africa and it is usually not done with this type of music so it really did not fit with the song,"
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Tyla, who is officially the first South African in over 55 years to enter the Billboard charts added that in as much as the style was not meant for her music she decided to go with her instincts and just include the choreography.
"But I was like naah it looks good on 'Water' I really felt it looked good. So I was like it looks so good we have to do it on 'Water'. And then we ended up rehearsing it and on stage I was like, let me pour water on my back.
I was trying to pull every trick I had on the book and so yeah I just did it on stage, I poured the water on my back and that video went crazy. It went viral," an elated Tyla said recapping the star of her international fame and recognition.
Her hit song which she co-wrote with Grammy winning producers Sammy Soso and Tricky Stewart saw her clench the award for Best African Music Performance, over Nigerian artists Davido, Ayra Starr and Burna Boy.
The Afro-beats tune follows the story of Tyla who is insanely infatuated with a man that has seen her experience an intense attraction and physical desire in the relationship. Water in this context is used in reference to a profound physical connection they had.
It did not have a lot of traction until Tyla's South African choreographer Lee-Che Janeke created the now globally renown dance (which Tyla okayed) for it which blew up on TikTok and saw the song going viral.
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