The sonic pair, comprised of Prince Baloyi, 31 and Moeketsi Rathebe, 33, from Welkom in the Free State, has reached impressive heights with a reported 10-million streams on digital music platforms and 23-million views on YouTube.
The music duo cemented its staying power at the weekend after their smash hit Stimela (featuring Ntate Stunna) scooped the only two public-voted categories (Record of the Year and Music Video of the Year) at the 29th annual SA Music Awards (Samas).
Rathebe added: “This weekend felt surreal… it felt like a dream because we couldn’t believe that we actually won the two important awards of that day. It took us a day to actually believe it. We started believing it after we saw the amount of people posting congratulatory messages on social media,” he told Sowetan.
“We feel very proud knowing where we’ve come from, the time invested in our career over a decade trying to get this kind of recognition in the South African music industry, and it is so overwhelming because no artists from Free State have ever reached such a milestone independently,” Rathebe said.
