As streaming apps begin rolling out the top tracks that defined our 2025 listening habits, it came as no surprise to me that Haitian-Canadian Grammy-winning producer and DJ Kaytranada dominated three of my year-end lists.
This got me reminiscing about how I, along with 30 000-plus of his fans across Cape Town and Johannesburg finally saw him live.
Kaytranada headlined the first-ever Milk Cookies Festival in South Africa. A day before the Cape Town show in January, I spoke to three of the founders : Chase Freeman, marketing director Jhordan Gibbs, who is the artist and sponsor director and Gregory K Burton Jr, the creative director.
