Focalistic Opens Up About How His Late Journalist Father Influenced His Music Career. Pittori’s Maradona real name Lethabo Sebetso has been the talk of town with his unique and authentic rap style on amapiano smash hits. He has also managed to create a ame for hiself in the amapiano industry by releasing platinum selling tracks. However, there is more to musician Focalistic than meets the eye and its connected to his late father, who was a political journalist.
Focalistic revealed that his presence in the music industry was attached to a much deeper purpose. “My dad was a political journalist, he passed away when I was in grade nine. But I always look up to my dad and I’ve always wanted to kind of reflect the times that I live in, but I’ve always been a creative person so I wanted to do it in a more creative way. So I think I’m still a journalist, but I’m doing it over a nice beat, with a nice flow and nice word play,” Focalistic said.
The star is also considered as an influencer more especially to the youth, as he mostly uses spitori on his verses. “I guess that’s the correlation of me being the voice of the youth because I’m in the streets, I’m really chilling with the people that need to be heard. At the end of the day, you can live vicariously through other people and voice out what they wanna say,” he added.
“I think that’s why I can go global… I always say every hood’s the same, like globally. We have the same issues, so once they get to know the story… those are issues happening in the hood and that’s what I’m about, being the voice of the youth and being a journalist documenting our times,” he said.
Focalistic has managed to create amapiano popularity in other countries such as Kenya and Nigeria. He was spotted on the Times Square billboard in New York and also made it to the lobal chart billboard. His music is not only making waves in Africa but outside the African continent too. One of his tracks ‘Ke Star’ was jammed to by American rapper Diddy, Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz.
