{"id":214131,"date":"2025-11-19T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-thuto-enters-music-scene\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:04:53","slug":"botswana-thuto-enters-music-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-thuto-enters-music-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Thuto Enters Music Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Gaborone \u2014 Musical talent runs in the family as debut artiste, Thuto Rantao, also jazz artiste, Kearoma Rantao&#8217;s daughter, has officially made her entrance in the music scene, with debut EP titled, <em>Baloi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The EP, is a collection of three tracks, <em>Baloi, Wena<\/em> and <em>Sdoba,<\/em> all weaved with the artiste&#8217;s distinctive sound, crafted by blending traditional Southern African rhythms and vocal stylings with contemporary pop, dance, and afro rhythm production techniques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;This is a fusion of sounds that are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511180653.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Musical talent runs in the family as debut artiste, Thuto Rantao, also jazz artiste, Kearoma Rantao&#8217;s daughter, has officially made her entrance in the music scene, with debut EP titled, Baloi. The EP, is a collection of three tracks, Baloi, Wena and Sdoba, all weaved with the artiste&#8217;s distinctive sound, crafted by blending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,9519,6662,257,13190,254,52904],"class_list":["post-214131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-enters","tag-music","tag-news","tag-scene","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thuto"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}