FRIDAY CO-STAR: SHO MADJOZI

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Let's just say you manage to convince OKMalumkoolat to take you on board as a poet. 'Malumkoolkat agrees and before you know it he's trying to convince you to rap; that you can really do this "thing" remaining as true to yourself and your culture as you do. You take him up on his challenge and what then ensues is not only the wildest dream you could dream but wildly beyond that. This is the story of Sho Madjozi vaguely told.

How about we try to vividly tell that story. By "we", what is meant is us and Sho Madjozi herself. Our part in the telling of this story is to ask the questions, the story then unfolds as told by the STAR of this epic tale of destiny, Sho Madjozi, via her responses to the questions we put to her.

This one is more than worth the phone bill. Having run up the phone bill on a call to Sho Madjozi over in the United States (U.S), where she is currently touring, all we can say is...

What a story! As amazing as it is, what's confounding is that it would seem as though this story is still unfolding and in doing so appears to reveal that this is only the beginning. SAMA Awards, BET Awards, Billboard charting hits, European tours and now a US tour opening for Stromae; as big as all of these milestones are, they bear a striking resemblance to the building blocks of a launch pad. As high as her altitude already is, it can only be up from here for Sho Madjozi.

To fully appreciate the story 5 years from now, one must hear the story at its current inflection point. A story that thus far tells of the origin and making of the human superstar that is Sho Madjozi. Human Superstar - a term that can only truly be appreciated once having listened to the story of one of Africa's and the world's brightest rising STARS.

*apologies for the lapses in audio quality
9 Dec 2022 English South Africa Arts

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