INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed reggae artist Jahnet Tafari, real name Makhosandile Mphono, has returned to the province to record a new album, Dues to Pay.
Mphono, who grew up in Cala but later moved to Cape Town, is also here to shoot videos for songs from his French-produced album Dub Plate. He is shooting his videos in Ginsberg and Coffee Bay, where he is also recording new songs.
Dues to Pay features a song about King William’s Town-born anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko. “With the song, I am urging black people to love themselves and remember what revolutionaries like Biko died for,” said Mphono, who has been working overseas in Belgium, Switzerland and France for a number of years.
“This is the first time in four years that I have been in South Africa for almost a full year, and it’s been a positive experience for me,” he said.
Mphono forms part of Raggaetainment, an events and artist management company owned by Nkosinathi Ntoyakhe, or Blaq Malachi as he is known to his Tru FM reggae show listeners.
Ntoyakhe and Mphono are recruiting other young artists in the province to the company. Tomorrow, they will be holding a reggae event at the Moses Twebe Hall in Dimbaza as part of their recruitment process and celebrating Mphono’s birthday.
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Mphono, who grew up in Cala but later moved to Cape Town, is also here to shoot videos for songs from his French-produced album Dub Plate. He is shooting his videos in Ginsberg and Coffee Bay, where he is also recording new songs.
Dues to Pay features a song about King William’s Town-born anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko. “With the song, I am urging black people to love themselves and remember what revolutionaries like Biko died for,” said Mphono, who has been working overseas in Belgium, Switzerland and France for a number of years.
“This is the first time in four years that I have been in South Africa for almost a full year, and it’s been a positive experience for me,” he said.
Mphono forms part of Raggaetainment, an events and artist management company owned by Nkosinathi Ntoyakhe, or Blaq Malachi as he is known to his Tru FM reggae show listeners.
Ntoyakhe and Mphono are recruiting other young artists in the province to the company. Tomorrow, they will be holding a reggae event at the Moses Twebe Hall in Dimbaza as part of their recruitment process and celebrating Mphono’s birthday.
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