Tyler ICU (ZA)

Austin Baloyi professionally known as Tyler ICU, was born and raised in Tembisa,Johannesburg. Tyler has become a household name in the South African producingscene. He began his musical career in 2006, making beats out of the back room ofhis home. In 2016 Tyler ICU met Vyno Miller and the two artists collaborated on a songcalled “Statement”. Later during that year, Tyler met Mas Musiq and the two artistscollaborated on several unreleased projects along with Vyno Miller. One of the unreleased projects found its way to the ears of multi-talented producerand artist, DJ Maphorisa, who subsequently invited Tyler to attend a studio sessionwith him. In this session, Tyler collaborated with KLY and produced the song “BlackForrest”. In 2019 he contributed to the songs such as “It’s You” and “Emazulwini”off BET award-winner Shasha’s EP titled “Blossom”. He proceeded to produceDr Peppa’s hit “What it is” which features Riky Rick, Lucasraps and Chang Cello. Following the success of the song, Tyler ICU went on to collaborate with one of Africa’sbiggest artists, Cassper Nyovest where he worked on the song “Good For That” whichachieved Gold status. Tyler then proceeded to expand and illustrate his diversity by co-producing multiple singles off "Scorpion Kings", “Scorpion Kings Live” album whichfeatured hits such as “Hello”, “Emcimbini” and “Energy”. He went on to produceDaliwonga’s “Uyang’Testa” album.Tyler also produced one of South Africa’s favorite hit “Ungazincishi” by Riky Rick ftFocalistic which took South Africa by storm. Tyler ICU released his album in 2020titled “Money Heist” with the talented Nicole Elocin, the album included hit singlessuch as “Bella Ciao” and “Risky”. The Bella Ciao audio video has since surpassed 1,7million views on YouTube and was featured on Apple Music’s Top 100: South Africaplaylist. Tyler’s most recent project “Banyana EP” which he released alongside DJMaphorisa has done exceptionally well with one of the singles “Banyana” reachingdouble platinum status. In 2023, Tyler continues to make the biggest hits in the SouthAfrican music industry with his recent success with NgiMoja, Mnike and Suka.