Lebo M Gives Praise To Thandiswa Mazwai

Music Producer and composer Lebo M expressed in an interview with TshisaLive that he feels that Thandizwa Mazwai is the biggest assets in South Africa since the late Mirriam Makeba. He even compared her to the biggest artists in the US like Beyonce and Celine Dion.

“I was at the 6664 concert in New York (in 2009) when Thandiswa Mazwai walked on stage for her set. I said to myself, ‘there is the real authentic Miriam Makeba. Where are the South African brands to give her the same support as Beyoncé and Celine Dion’ Because Thandiswa is on the same level, and has the same talent, as Beyoncé and Celine Dion,” he said.

The Composeser added South African talent needs to work with South African investors to catapult their brand overseas”Black Coffee is an institution. Trevor (Noah) is iconic, bigger than anything else. But you don’t see global South African entities, businesses, doing endorsements and deals with Trevor, Lebo M or Black Coffee- artists that are global. That is the problem I have.  South African brands need to get behind South African talent.We need to all be flying SAA and be hosted by SA tourism overseas. We need to do these deals. There’s a business behind this thing that South African investors don’t want to acknowledge,” he said.