Manager blends kwaito and Afro pop

NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE
Correspondent | Wednesday August 22, 2012 00:00

 

Manager believes that his album is going to make it big in the industry as he has introduced something that no other artist has done before - that is mixing Afro-pop and kwaito and coming up with a fabulous album. The young man believes that with all his determination he will be able to rock the music lovers' world as they won't stop dancing to his beats and mesmerising sweet voice.

Even though Ke Kopa Lerato is his first album, Manager is no stranger to the industry as he started dancing in 2007 as a dancer in a group called Maprista that later split up. At the time he was still a student at Francistown's Mater Spei College. He said that after writing his BGCSE he moved to Gaborone where he got his break after meeting the late Cisco-B who inspired and played a big role in uplifting his career.

The young man got lucky and found a job as a DC plant assistant in a marketing agency Dargie Advertising Agency, commonly known as DDS, or Dargie Digital Studios that has worked with the some of the country's top artists including Slizer, Captain Dira, Franco, Ditiro and others. Manager later met T-Boss, a South African producer of Sekorokoro from Kalakuta records, who then produced the lad's album Ke Kopa Lerato.

'Ke Kopa Lerato track is a song about a young man who pleads with a young woman to date him, promising her that he will love only her and nobody else will win his heart like her. He promises to never let her down,' the young Manager said proudly. The other songs are Mama, dedicated to his mum, woza for kwaito grovers and Re Thuse, which is an instrumental piece.

Even though the album has not been released yet, Ke Kopa Lerato is a popular song to some of Manager's fans as he has occasionally sung it at some shows where revellers gave him a positive reaction. He said that he has performed along side kwasa-kwasa star Franco during some of his (Franco) road shows. 'I have even performed at the Maitisong festival show,' says Manager.

Like other artists he has urged his fans to support his music and all Batswana to rally behind local music, as 'there is nothing better than home brewed talent'.