'I’m living in a parallel universe with my condition': Our last interview with Johnny Clegg

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TshisaLIVE interviewed Johnny Clegg two years ago when he announced his retirement.

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On September 15 2017, TshisaLIVE was part of a select group of media who were invited to a press conference where Johnny Clegg announced his retirement from the music industry.

The iconic musician said “living on a sentence” made him appreciate everything in his life more, including precious moments with his family and friends.After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago, it has been veteran musician Johnny Clegg's mission to achieve all his musical goals before retiring later this year.

Johnny told TshisaLIVE that after being diagnosed he learnt to appreciate the little gifts in life, which is also the reason he wants to put on one last impressive show. "I’m fit now but the oncologists say you have to entertain the fact that it might be an illusion because you have all this chemo in you, that is just keeping this [cancer] at bay and it has a finite life span. But when I am on stage and performing, I feel like I can do this forever. It’s a massive contradiction in my brain,” he said.

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