Innocent Maphangwa is guilty of hip hop talent

A young hip hop artist, Innocent Maphangwa, found his voice in the music fraternity after the release of his single selection early this year.

He has just released his single compilation and the four songs are already endearing him to thousands of fans through the national radio stations and community radio stations who give him airplay.

“I started recording with my two cousins from our bedroom at home at the age of 17,” he shares his start. Innocent was deeply into music throughout his high school career. He would stand on the classrooms’ verandahs and belt out rhymes with the virtuosity of one who had a dream and vision to take his talent to greater heights.

“I moved to Jozi (Johannesburg) in 2012 and I managed to find a studio where I recorded my first professional sounds and voice,” he says. “The result of that project was an educating, motivational and an overall entertaining album around August of the same year.

The title of his single is It's About Time. He is currently enjoying massive airplay with song such as This Life, My Love, and U Wane Tshinwe, on national radio stations. “There's a track called U Wane Tshinwe on this single selection,” he says. “It's a motivational track about being proud of who you are but also for those who are ambitious enough to aspire to reach the top.”

Innocent also worked with youthful but highly talented producers and engineers such as Bheki and DJ Rabza. “But I finally found myself in the good hands of Mpho Miriri, who has a good knowledge of promoting Limpopo talent,” he says.

He resides at Manamani village, and is sometimes based in Johannesburg where he is continuing to establish himself as a brand name in the music fraternity.

Entertainment - Date: 04 September 2014

Tshifhiwa Mukwevho

Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.

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