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Fakazile was born in Witbank, grew up in Rietspruit, and came of age in Johannesburg, South Africa. Having inherited the art of singing from her father, who was a chorister, when she was 17 she ventured into contemporary Afro-Pop music, recording a number if tracks where she featured as a vocalist. It was only in the spring of 2018 that she started working professionally on her music. Her crooning vocal style drew her to avant-garde afro-spiritual experiments, and she ended up working with and making occasional appearances on the live performances of Sibusile Xaba’s Elihle, Abakhohlwanga, and Makwande Lwande. In the following year, she collaborated with self-taught DJ and Producer Cornelius SA on the feel-good house track Superman, released under Greek Label, Madorasindahouse Records in July 2019 that she caught the attention of the house music scene and broadened the possibilities of future house music collaborations.

Coming from eMalahleni, home to Hugh Masekela and a string of many other jazz legends, it is no wonder that she gravitated towards African Jazz and African music from early on. In 2019 she finally got the opportunity to work with one of the greats from this golden age on her debut project, “Wena”; carrying “Wena”, the title track, on the A-Side, and “Mayine” on the B-Side. The songs have just being released this year, and in time for the southern hemisphere’s first spring after a global lockdown necessitated by the corona virus pandemic. The project is anchored in Fakazile’s vocals Madala Kunene’s guitar compositions.