“Every tune I do pertains to the period that I’m in. I used to be in an period the place I felt as if my goals have been coming true,” she explains. “Thukzin flew me to Durban only for a studio session. To me it was loopy that that they had booked lodging and flights only for me to sing. ‘What if I don’t offer you successful? How are you going to threat all that time and cash, only for me to come back and sing?’ The lyrics speaks to that, how we’ve switched into a brand new gear and are on one other degree.”
Nxumalo, who was raised in Alexandra township in northern Joburg, says she had a typical ’hood expertise together with her dad and mom, grandparents, and prolonged members of the family. “I’m huge on household. I’ve at all times liked the whole lot to do with leisure and vogue. I’ve at all times been that woman who entertains individuals and attire good.”
One among her greatest achievements got here late final yr when she was named as one in every of Puma’s native ambassadors.
“I knew I might be right here even earlier than it began, even with my Puma collaboration,” she says. “In 2021, after I was nonetheless in highschool, we went to the Puma retailer in Braam. I requested my father to purchase me a pair of sneakers that have been R1 500 and he stored giving me the runaround. So, I liked going to that retailer and simply fantasising about what I might purchase and the way I might rock the tights. Two years later, I acquired the Puma contract. However the humorous factor is, now that I’ve the entry, I hardly go. It’s humorous how life works.”
After I ask her what’s subsequent, she sums it up in two phrases: “The celebrities,” she quips.
