Konke Set To Perform At The Idols Top 2 Announcement. This Sunday, South African audiences will find out which of the Idols SA finalists will be going through to the finale. At this stage, it’s pretty hard to separate them – Nozi, Mpilwenhle and Thapelo have all wowed audiences from the start, and most will be happy to acknowledge that any one of them could rightly win the title. That said, speculation is something of a moot point, so we’ll focus on the guest artists appearing this Sunday.
Konke found himself as the guest performer which comes in a form of a group performance by three artists with a ripe history of working with one another: the afrobeats / amapiano performer Musa Keys, Durban-born Konke and vocalist Chley. They’ll be dropping a medley of ‘M’nike’ and ‘Selema (Po Po)’, which should get audiences to their feet in no time.
Of course, the real point of this Sunday’s episode is the reveal of the two finalists who will be going through to the grand finale with a shot at winning the whole season. It’s been a bumper year in terms of the number of people who have been voting, and that number has been going up every week. It’s going to be a massive show.
In August, just three months after its release, Konke closed the South African Music Awards with a stunning performance of the hit single alongside Keys.Eager to maximise the growing hype, earlier this month the pair turned up the heat with the release of another single, “Mnike”, which has been an instant hit on the radio. It’s been quite the start.When we speak over the phone, Konke says he’s just landed in Durban, where he’s based, after a short visit to Joburg to perform on Channel O’s Massive Music. He’s been making the trip to and from Joburg almost every week.
While his meteoric rise has taken some adjusting to, it’s been a journey he’s been enjoying.“It’s super amazing,” he said. “It just requires me to allocate my time efficiently. It’s also just given me a very great experience, getting to know different places, and travelling around different countries. The experience on its own is dope to a point where you feel like, eish, whenever I’m not moving or not going anywhere it’s actually not my life.”
