'Oleseng's voice mine' - Young muso sang 'sick-bed' ditties

The label allegedly used a trailblazing Pretoria- based musician to sing all Oleseng's ditties on his album Tribute To Oleseng and lied that the alto-voiced musician recorded the songs when he was ill. It emerged this week that this was a ruse to fool the award-winning muso's battalion of fans into buying the album. This revelation was made by budding musician Tebogo Motaung after Cool Spot reneged on its agreement to pay him R100 000 for the nefarious job.

Motaung says he was approached by the owner of Shuping's record label, who asked him to record an album under the pretext that it was recorded by the artist himself. He said Shuping, who died of pneumonia earlier this month, was wheelchair-bound and couldn't croon as one of his lungs was damaged in a car accident he was involved in about four years ago.