Influence / Break all boundaries

Influence is a 12-year-old DJ and producer from South Africa whose music speaks before he does. He reads sound the way most people read light — with depth, instinct and a memory for feeling that musicians twice his age spend lifetimes trying to learn.

Raised inside the gravity of South African house, mentored by the genre's most uncompromising voices, and signed to DanceAfrika, Influence is not a novelty act and not a story of pity. He is a producer. A selector. A craftsman of grooves with a signature already taking shape — earthy, soulful, and unafraid of the silence between the kicks.