Mpumi Shares Deep Personal Details That Inspired The Song ‘Izulu’

Songstress Mpumi has revealed the reasons that inspired her latest heartfelt single titled Izulu. She said that she went through a heartache after she separated with her former lover who she thought was the one. It took Mpumi a year to finally face the hurt and express it as she did pouring out her feelings in the single Izulu.

“You think that this person is the one and you will spend eternity with them. Nothing else in the world matters, but that person and you feel like without them you are nothing. Then it all comes crashing down and the pain is just too much. I went through all of the emotions you can imagine and thought my world had ended. The only thing I hadn’t tried to help me heal was music. I did that and now I can finally make sense of everything.” She said Speaking To TshisaLive.

She hoped that in speaking about her pain, she would be able to help other women who had gone through the same.

“It is a healing process that is better shared. I don’t want to go back to that place where I was not present in the moment and where I felt like a part of me was broken.”

The Umoya singer said she’s hoping to include the song (Izulu) in her upcoming second album, the follow-up to her 2016 debut The Birth of Mpumi.

“It hasn’t been easy breaking into the industry. I tried for years to get someone to listen to me. I was rejected by record label after record label and I just wanted to give up. I was confused because singing was my passion but I thought being a musician wasn’t my calling. So, I decided that I would just sing. Even if I had to stand in the middle of the Market Theatre (in Johannesburg) and sing for one or two people.”