Holley Rey Explains Her Reasons To Sing In & Embrace Zulu Culture
Halley Ray on how she got into music.
Holley Rey Explains Her Reasons To Sing In & Embrace Zulu Culture. It is slowly becoming common of SA white people in an entertainment industry to engage themselves into the culture or lifestyle of Zulu people. One of the good examples of such is Holly Rey whose vocals can have any blind perso assume she was a black kasi girl.
She explained how she got to know the Zulu lingo and who influenced his style.
“One of the biggest influence on who I am today has to be the fact that I went to a boarding school when I was eight years old. I lived in boarding houses with other kids from all over the country and all over the continent; it was the most incredible foundation for me as person.
“I learnt from an early age that our differences in upbringing and our diversity in culture are a beautiful thing and something to be celebrated.”
Holly broke into the industry at the tender age of 14 when she signed a deal with Sony ATV Publishing.
“I had written and recorded a song for Madiba [Nelson Mandela] as a gift, and a family friend introduced me to Jay Savage.
“He came to see me perform an acoustic set and signed me as a songwriter. I later did a digital distribution deal with Content Connect and Siyabonga Madiba was released as part of an MTN campaign. It was the second-most downloaded song in Africa for that campaign. I signed my first record deal when I was 15.”
Mondli Ngcobo would be the man who changed her life and her sound when she met him when she was 16.
“He was at a Nyusi Volume event and we worked on some songs. I released a single Bang Bang with Soul Candi Records, which charted on Traxsource. She added.
Source : TshisaLIVE
