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The distinct musical genre of Amapiano can be heard in clubs and parties all around the world.
It's a sound born out of the unique cultural identity of South Africa.
I am legendary Chris,
and I'm going to take you on a journey of exploration as we dive into the history of the music.
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In March 1895, a young woman called Alice Guy, a secretary for a Parisian camera manufacturer,
was invited by two brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière,
to accompany her boss to what was described as a little surprise party.
They were taken to a room with a large white sheet hanging at the back.
In front of it was an apparatus that looked like a camera and to their great amazement,
once the crank was turned, they saw there on the sheet, workers leaving a factory.
Still pictures that had miraculously come to life and were being projected.
Without knowing it, Alice Guy had just experienced the birth of cinema.
And it was this remarkable event and her huge creative drive that led her to become one of the major pioneers of early motion pictures and the first woman filmmaker in the world.
She was an entrepreneur as well as a creative who also ran and owned her own film studio.
In the press in the early 1910s, she was hailed as a leading figure in the film industry.
Madame Alice Blachet is a striking example of the modern woman in business who is doing a man's work and she is succeeding in a line of work in which hundreds of men have failed.
What she has accomplished is solely the result of personal effort,