Before her music topped the charts of South Africa’s industry; before she heard her name announced as a SAMA-award-nominee, even before we knew her as Azana – Makhosazana Masango was a young singer from Durban with great talent and even greater levels of shyness
I grew up in Chesterville,Durban and I am the only girl at home as well as a last born so my parents gave me the name Makhosazana which means Princess.I then grew up singing endlessly and eventually I was performing for crowds and I decided that I wanted to make my name different and shorter for stage,I then cut Makhosazana for Azana . Before I finalized my decision I looked up the meaning of Azana. I found that Azana means Queen, it was meant to be, I knew at that moment that was the name for my Brand.
Azana’s music career is one for the books and all thanks to Sino Msolo. “He used to see me perform on campus and I wasn’t aware of that, the first time I noticed Sino Msolo was in a singing competition called the Bloem talent show and he was performing with his guitar and I was captivated by his talent,” she said.
“He then invited me to watch him perform at a lounge where he usually performed on Sundays with a band, we kept in touch since then. He encouraged my career in music and begged that I tag Sanele T Sithole in my cover posts,” she added.
