Ashma Raffiki Lepara
Bio
Ashma Lepara is a South African recording artist, performer, and record producer. He recorded his first professional track in 2011, which he co-produced titled 'The Journey, ' a Motswako hip hop, a popular genre in South Africa. After the critically acclaimed popularity, he gained
from the song, he kept giving out more. Ashma Lepara is a new kid on the block, known to his peers as “Motswakolista”, and is an all-rounder musician whose music is inspired by the likes of HHP, JR, and Khuli Chana, Brenda Fassie, and all Kwaito Legends. “Motswakolista” is a Pretoria-born musician
My inspiration has always been life experiences; says Ashma. He was born in a post-apartheid South Africa, west side of Pretoria in a township called Phelidanda. Like any other townships, you find men with failed purposes, many who had dreams of ruling the world, but instead now drink their lives away and many have committed themselves to drugs and prostitution. In all of these situations, people like Ashma Lepara chose a different path: music.