Top 10 Things You Did Not Know About Lebo Sekgobela
Top 10 Things You Did Not Know About Lebo Sekgobela – Her vocals are golden when she sings, she sets the house on fire. Hitting every note with a blow that hits you right in the gut. I mean you’re left with an adrenaline to fight for a better tomorrow into this heavenly stake of the gospel industry she now owns.
Check out below The Top 10 Things You Might Not Know About the Gospel Star:
1 When she was interviewed the gospel stated being raped as a child resides within her, she has just learnt to survive through it.
“You never get over rape, it lives with you forever. I recently drove past the street where the second incident happened. It’s such a busy street; why didn’t anyone see me?”
2 Her husband is her first boyfriend, first kiss and everything else.
Lebo states prior to her husband Lucky she hadn’t dated. The love birds got married in 1997 and they have three kids.
3 She recorded Restored following meeting Matsetse. She has confidence her artwork has advocated wonders not just for her life, but also for others in the gospel profession. With her hit song Lion of Judah it evident that each of us has an opportunity to achieve what we desire. She pinched herself when she reached number one on the charts or local iTunes ratings.
4 Lebo Sekgobela and her husband Lucky have been married to her husband over 20 years.
5 She has worked as an administrator in an IT company. Also for most of her adult life, she was a personal assistant for a pastor at my local church. She delights in witnessing lives being transformed through God’s work. This is what gave her faith in the success of her music.
6 She has lived in a shack and sometimes even in a mud house, she has tasted poverty. Sekgobela knows the struggle. She experienced surviving on pap and fish oil and on glorious days having cabbage with her pap was a blessing.
7 She has been nominated for Female Artist of the Year at the 2017 South African Music Awards (SAMAs)
8 She first learnt of the song Lion Of Judah at a conference back in Durban in the year 2015. The musician and songwriter Matsetse Matthews had it penned down 16 years ago, so, when she heard him sing it, She was motivated. Her spirit received the message. The lyrics allude how we should not fret but rather put our trust in God.
9 Her song Lion of Judah was one of 2016’s biggest hits, proving that gospel music can surpass any critic and crossover and even compete with genres like kwaito, house and hip hop for Song of the year at the Metro FM Awards.
10 Lebo Sekgobela, the Gospel singer is from the dusty streets of Sedibeng in the Southern part of Gauteng, raised Vaal region.
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Written by: Aphiwe Theodorah Mvinjelwa
