Rumbidzai Mhlanga, Sunday Life Reporter
UP-AND-COMING Zim dancehall artiste Ayanda Ndlovu warmly-known as Brizzy Sox, based in Victoria Falls recently had a collaboration with Bazooker.
The 30-year-old artiste developed love for music in primary school and since then he never looked back.
Brizzy Sox narrated the reason why he choose to have a collaboration with the Harare-based artiste Bazooker.
“We had this collabo with the intention of uniting Shona and Ndebele people through music since Zim dancehall is more like a Shona thing, so we thought it was a good idea to also have a Zim dancehall song in Ndebele since we also happen to love the genre thus we came up with a song titled Soku Worse.
We are working on a video for the song which will be out by the second week of September and it is being shot by NAXO Films,” said Ayanda.
The artiste told Sunday Life that working with Bazooker has a great impact on his music career.
“I am still new in the industry as I got signed by Ice Beats Ent early this year, that’s when I had my first collabo and I am currently recording an EP with different producers.
Working with a renowned Zim dancehall chanter is more of a career breakthrough for me since I am the first artiste to sing Zim dancehall in Ndebele, for someone who does not have any album yet the song has taken me places and it is opening a lot of doors and also putting me in the map in the music industry.
I am now working on another collabo with TI Gonzi and Soul Jah Love and we are currently recording with Mount Zion,” he said.
Brizzy Sox shared with this publication his experiences and future plans.
“Working with Bazooker and TI Gonzi means a lot in my career. It shows that I am growing in the music business.
We have been having shows in a couple of places and two weeks back had one in Victoria Falls with Bazooker, the response was amazing, I didn’t think that people would love and appreciate our creativity and art the way they did and as an up-and-coming artiste people really welcomed me with both hands.
That gave me hope that better and greater things are coming my way,” he said.
Bazooker shared the same sentiments with Brizzy Sox.
“The reason why we produced that song is to prove that like every music genre dance hall is not only meant for Shona people, that is why even though I cannot speak fluent Ndebele I tried to sing in it.
I happen to be someone who loves learning new languages and culture, that’s why even at the UMdala Wethu concert I also sang in Ndebele.
We are actually planning to have Zim dancehall songs in various languages that we speak in our country so that everyone is included because the songs are for everyone,” Bazooker said.
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