Kaya 959 Breakfast starts the day with award-winning Makhadzi

By Zuko Komisa

Kaya 959 breakfast with Dineo Ranaka and Sol Phenduka started the day with awarrd-winning Ndivhudzannyi Ralivhona, known by her stage name Makhadzi.

She was born and reared in Ha-Mashamba, Limpopo. Her career started as a dancer when she was 12 years old, and she then pursued a singing career. 

In 2015, she released Muhwalo Uya Ndemela after signing a record deal with Rita Dee Entertainment while still in school.

After the release of her single “Tshanda Vhuya” in 2017, she gained local notoriety. Matorokisi, her eighth studio album, debuted at number two in South Africa.

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She shared more about her journey, her love for music and more on what people can expect from her freshly released album ‘African Queen 2.0’.

LISTEN TO THE FULL CONVERSATION HERE:

On how she started he career in entertainment

“They were doing promotions and I wanted to join them and dance… after that I won a t-shirt and a cellphone. I went the following day thinking I would win the same thing, I went there and enjoyed myself. I hiked all the way to Polokwane and found other artists dancing there, they gave me R2, and I asked to be their dancer, that’s how it all started.”

On meeting Master KG

“Me and Master KG’s first time talking was when he asked me about music, he said he wanted to do a song with me on Instagram, that time I wasn’t very familiar with how Instagram worked and I ended up ignoring him.”

“It later happened that we met and exchanged numbers, and when we spoke he told me about how I had ignored him, when he asked to do a song with me. We eventually made a song together, and that when we started communicating.”

On the struggles she had and her journey to stardom

“During that time I was excited for the first two months, and after that time, I go to promotions outside shops, I would see other kids coming back from school, and I would remind myself that I am still young and needed to go back to school. Back home, dropping out of school felt like it was a sin.”

“I wasn’t sure when I went home if they would accept me as an entertainer considering that I had dropped out.”

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