Tshepo Bareetseng

By Tshepo Bareetseng Watkin Tudor Jones who is also known as ‘Ninja’ was born in the 27th September 1974 in Johannesburg. He attended school at Park town Boys High School; he quit school just a year before his graduation. Jones is a South African rapper and record producer. He has been in the Hip-Hop music industry since the year 1998. He is known for his Hip-Hop and Electro music. Jones is also a renowned graphic artist and creator of a range of ‘nasty’ fluffy toys. He also used to be an actor and doing commercials for Nando’s. He is known for many nick names such as Ninja, The Man Who Never Back, MC Totally Rad and Yang Weapon. Watkin Tudor Jones has a few albums under different guises. He was in a group called Max Normal and he was a lead vocalist, in the year 2001 the group dropped an album called ‘Songs from the Mall’. In the early 2002, Watkin left Max Normal. He moved from Johannesburg to go and live in Cape Town where he joined the ...

By Tshepo Bareetseng Lerato Molapo who is also known as “Lira” was born in Daveyton Township in the Eastern side of Johannesburg. Lira stated singing and performing at the age of 16. She was inspired by the great: Miriam Makeba, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and many more others. Lerato studied Accounting but decided to use her singing skills to pursue her dream which resulted in her first demo release at the age of 18. Lira was discovered by a producer, kwaito artist called Arthur Mafokate in the year 2000. Arthur signed Lira to his record label ‘999 Music’ and helped her release her first debut Album ‘All MY LOVE’ in 2003. The Album earned her the Metro Fm Awards, South African Music Awards and Channel O Reel Music Awards. In 2010, she shared a stage with American singers Alicia Keys and John Legend at the FIFA world Cup Kick-Off Concert performing a cover song ‘Pata Pata’ which was originally recorded by the Late Miriam Makeba. She...