{"id":6836,"date":"2026-06-26T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/kabza-de-small-tops-2026-samas-nominations\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:45:58","slug":"kabza-de-small-tops-2026-samas-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/kabza-de-small-tops-2026-samas-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabza De Small tops 2026 SAMAs nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/kabza-de-small-tops-2026-samas-nominations-with-five-nods\/\">Kabza De Small<\/a><\/strong> leads the nominations for the 32nd <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samusicawards.co.za\">South African Music Awards (SAMAs)<\/a><\/strong> with five nods, as the full list of contenders across 25 categories was unveiled online on 25 June. The awards ceremony will take place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/sama32-nominees-revealed-ahead-of-sun-city-return\/\">Sun City<\/a> Superbowl in North West Province on 15 August.<\/p>\n<h2>Top Nominees<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/3bPxLzaxUeN8RMLZ8UkBki\">Kabza De Small<\/a>&#8216;s album <em>Bab&#8217;Motha<\/em> earned nominations in two categories, while his collaborative work secured three additional nods.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/amapiano-in-2026-defining-tracks-and-industry-shifts-at-the-halfway-mark\/\">Best Amapiano Album<\/a> \u2013 <em>Bab&#8217;Motha<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Best Engineered Album \u2013 <em>Bab&#8217;Motha<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Best Collaboration<\/li>\n<li>Best Produced Music Video<\/li>\n<li>Remix of the Year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DJ Maphorisa<\/strong> and <strong>Nasty C<\/strong> each received three nominations. DJ Maphorisa&#8217;s nods include Best Collaboration and Best Produced Music Video for &#8216;Abantwana Bakho&#8217;, as well as Best Collaboration for &#8216;Dlala Ka Yona&#8217;. Nasty C&#8217;s <em>Free<\/em> was shortlisted for Best Hip Hop Album and Best Engineered Album, while &#8216;Leftie (Dlala Ngcobo)&#8217; earned a nomination for Best Produced Music Video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelvin Momo<\/strong> secured two nominations in the Best Amapiano Album category for <em>N&#8217;wana Wa Mutsonga<\/em> and <em>Thato Ya Modimo<\/em>, and also appears in the Remix of the Year category through <em>Eningi (Remix)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other artists with multiple nominations include <strong>Samthing Soweto<\/strong> (Best Afro Pop Album and Best Engineered Album for <em>Touch is a Move (Good Morning)<\/em>), <strong>Shekhinah<\/strong> (Best Pop Album and Best Produced Album for <em>Less Trouble<\/em>), <strong>Langa Mavuso<\/strong> (Best R&amp;B Soul Album and Best Produced Album for <em>Therapy: The Other Side<\/em>), and <strong>Guy Buttery<\/strong> (Best Classical Instrumental Album and Best Engineered Album for <em>Orchestrations<\/em>).<\/p>\n<h2>Category Contenders<\/h2>\n<p>The Best Afro Pop Album category features CiCi (<em>Busisiwe 2.0<\/em>), Lwah Ndlunkulu (<em>Amaciko<\/em>), Sjava (<em>Inkanyezi 2.0 (Live)<\/em>), Nomfundo Moh (<em>Out The Box<\/em>) and Samthing Soweto (<em>Touch is a Move (Good Morning)<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Best Dance Album nominees are MaWhoo, M\u00d6RDA, Da Capo, Dlala Thukzin and JAZZWRLD with <em>Thukuthela<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Best Maskandi Album category includes Saliwa, Mbuzeni, Ntencane, Smiramira and Mzukulu.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz category nominees are Mandisi Dyantyis, Paras &#8220;Sibalukhulu&#8221; Dlamini, Temba Ncetani, Lumanyano Mzi and Billy Monama.<\/p>\n<p>Best Pop Album contenders are Will Linley, Matt Gardiner, Shekhinah, Anica Kiana and Tannah.<\/p>\n<p>The Rest of Africa Award will be contested by Ghanaian artists Gyakie and Black Sherif, alongside Nigerian acts Olamide, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/3tVQdUvClmAT7URs9V3rsp\">Wizkid<\/a>, Asake and Tiwa Savage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kabza De Small leads the 2026 SAMAs nominations with five nods, ahead of the 15 August ceremony at Sun City Superbowl.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[512],"tags":[563,1515,1516,1832,1102,1647],"class_list":["post-6836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-industry-news","tag-amapiano","tag-dj-maphorisa","tag-kabza-de-small","tag-nasty-c","tag-samas","tag-south-african-music-awards","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kabza De Small leads 2026 SAMAs nominations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kabza De Small secures five nominations for the 2026 South African Music Awards, with DJ Maphorisa, Nasty C, and Kelvin Momo also among top contenders. 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