Morena Leraba

Over the past six years, Morena Leraba has emerged as the flagbearer of a remodelled Lesotho sound through a brace of collaborations, live performances and singles. Now, in 2020, Leraba is poised to take that sound to an even wider global audience, with a full-length solo record in the works that will provide a showcase for his singular sound.

As heard on songs like “Mpuli”, and “Impepho”, Leraba’s music mixes homegrown, traditional Famo-inspired vocals with electronic music, dub and echoes of hip hop, to create a psychedelic and entrancing sound that is still evolving.

Writing in 2017, journalist Kwanele Sosibo said Leraba “has the air of a musical nomad in search of a new identity but with the vaults of history to mine from”. Those vaults of history include Famo – a sub-genre of traditional Sesotho music based on the accordion and originating from Lesothoʼs long-standing encounter with South Africa’s migrant labour system.