How Izingane Zoma's 'Msholozi' changed the face of maskandi | Arts

album sold 50 000 copies in its first week of sales.

This would frequently be soundtracked by Mfaz Omnyama’s greatest hits, Pastor Mpungose’s charismatic sermons or some knock-off rerecording of a popular RnB hit like Tamia’si by Izingane Zoma. It was a complicated masterpiece that converted casual bystanders like me into rabid fans. "What people don’t realise is that we pioneered that style in maskandi," points out Tholakele Ngobese who along with Phungula is one of the two surviving members of the trio after the death of her sister Bongekile."If you look back at our debut album, we were the first to do it consistently on an album. Most artists then saw that what we were doing was working and people loved it. I don’t want to say they copied us, but they definitely had to adapt to what we were doing.

"Inquthu always had strong IFP allegiances, but when Jacob Zuma was released as deputy president, a lot of Zulu-speaking people in the area were upset and felt that he was being sidelined because he was Zulu. Tribalism was always a big fear then and so, through our music, we wanted to say, if you are saying there is no tribalism then prove it and give him a chance," says Ngobese.

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