Jeff Matheatau to release eighth album

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Staff Writer | Thursday August 23, 2012 00:00

Matheatau says his new album called, Favour, will re-introduce him as one of the most fearless competitors in the music industry. Earlier this year, the musician was in the news for reasons other than music on account of his divorce. This marked a dark era in the musician's life and many doubted he would recover in time to revive his waning career.

'I cannot say I am celebrating my new life because divorce is an unfortunate thing. It is one of those things that you want to forget because you are not grateful it has happened,' Matheatau told Showbiz.The muscular former soldier broke into the limelight with his debut album called, Dilala Di Tshameka. He admits that his career took a knock around the same time his marriage started to fall apart. Now Matheatau says he believes his eighth album, due for release at the end of September, is the first step towards him starting the process of putting his life back together.  One of the tracks on the new release, Bo Rre, addresses relationship problems but Matheatau denies it was inspired by his personal experiences.

'I am trying to show people, men especially, that when things go sour in a relationship there are many places to find help and that people must learn to let go. This is not about me, besides this thing has been going on even before I started experiencing problems in my marriage; there have been passion killings and stuff,' Matheatau insisted. His appeal on the song is for men to stop suppressing their pain and be open whenever they go through turmoil in their relationship as he believes not talking about their problems can lead to violence.

'I know it is difficult for a man to shed tears because we have been raised to believe that a man does not cry but blocking those tears and being ashamed to seek help when you are hurting can only lead to disaster,' he said.The Garass Pampiri star has also dished out hits like Gokatweng from Ditshepe album and believes his career is far from over. Recently, he has been the resident musician at Ghetto Blues night club near the Tlokweng Border gate but says he will start appearing at other venues once his new album is out.