Msaki – Statues II (feat. Da Capo & Black Motion)

biografia de Msaki

South African musician Msaki is currently experiencing a great time in her career. She has been on the rise for a while and everything is finally coming together this year since appearing on Prince Kaybee Fetch Your Life. Continue reading to find out who she is.

Early life

Msaki age was reported earlier this year as 31. Msaki real name is Asanda Lusaseni Mvana. She was born in East London, a city in the Eastern Cape Province on the southeastern coast, which is part of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. Apart from East London, she grew up in the areas of Cathcart, Butterworth, Nqamakhwe, Peddie, and Grahamstown.

Education and career

Her musical career has always been tied to her educational pursuits. For example, she joined an alternative rock band in the year 2008 in East London while studying Visual Art and Design. She went on to Grahamstown to study further in the field of Visual Art, which is where she met her husband in 2009.

The next year, she was in England, attending the University of Leeds to study Art as an exchange student, which is where she learned how to play the guitar all by herself. When she returned to Grahamstown in 2011, she became involved in the indie music.

In 2012, she was selected from a group of almost 1,000 potential candidates who had applied to go to study music in North Carolina in the United States. This is the point where she made the decision to pursue music as a full-time career. Her genre is folk but she works with artists of other genres.

Msaki label

One of the first things she did was set up her own independent record label which she named One Shushu Day Artistry. She is signed to this label.

biografia de Black Motion

Black Motion é uma dupla de gravadores musicais, oriunda de Soshanguve (Norte de Pretória – Tshwane), o grupo é formado por Thabo “Smol” Mabogwane (Percussionista) e Robert “Murdah” Mohosana. Eles começaram a lançar músicas online, em 2009, e logo chamaram a atenção dos seguidores da dance music. Esse rápido sucesso fez com que seus singles fossem licenciados para compilação de CDs por DJs de renome.

Prémios

SAMA XXI – Melhor Álbum de Dança 2015
SAMA XXII – Melhor ÁLBUM de Dança 2017 | Melhor Duo 2017