{"id":53208,"date":"2020-06-08T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T10:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/?p=53208"},"modified":"2020-06-08T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T10:25:45","slug":"what-you-might-not-know-about-samthing-soweto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/what-you-might-not-know-about-samthing-soweto\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Might Not Know About Samthing Soweto"},"content":{"rendered":"

What You Might Not Know About Samthing Soweto – Early Life, Career, Achievements<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Samthing Soweto is a popular South African songwriter and singer with the real name Samkelo Lelethu Mdolomba. He had a major breakthrough in the music scene with his feature on record producer Sun-El Musicians’ single, “Akanamali”, released in 2017. He has since been making wave in the industry with his exceptional talent.<\/p>\n

Early Life<\/b><\/h3>\n

Samkelo was born and bred in Protea North, Soweto in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was moved to Eastern Cape to live with his grandmother at a much younger age in other to create a better upbringing but didn\u2019t stay long as he was moved back to Protea North a year later. In an interview, Samthing revealed his mother\u2019s intentions for taking him to his grandmother\u2019s at EC. He said, “She [his mother] thought maybe an upbringing in the EC would benefit me but it didn\u2019t. I lost weight, not that my granny wasn\u2019t looking after me, I cried every day\u2026it was too much for me so she came back after a year”.<\/p>\n

Of four children, Samthing was the third; they were all raised by his single mother.<\/p>\n

While in grade 8, Samkelo Lelethu Mdolomba left school because he had problems of reading and writing. According to him, “School was really tough for me. It was a nightmare but I went back nonetheless.”<\/p>\n

At age 15, Samkelo was involved in Mandrax drug and some criminal activities as a way to escape from the difficulties at home. He was later sent to a juvenile detention centre for armed robbery and this was the beginning of his music career. He revealed that music helped him to escape from a life of drug addiction and crime.<\/p>\n

Music Career<\/b><\/h3>\n

Samthing was one of the pioneers of \u201cThe Soil\u201d- an acapella group. He described its aim as “A group that sings songs, songs that we can afford to sing. And I say afford, because everything out there was programmed or played with instruments and we couldn\u2019t afford that, so I was like let\u2019s use our voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The SA singer also did several solo projects some of which brought him out to limelight. Some of them include- his \u201cThis N That Without Tempo\u201d album which was released on 6th August 2010; appearance on poet Makhafula Vilakazi’s South African poetry album, \u201cI Am Not Going Back To The Township\u201d as a producer and a guest vocalist in 2013; the release of Mdolomba debut EP, \u201cEb’suku\u201d on 4th January 2014. The release of one of his hit songs \u201cJoy\u201d; Musical performance at \u201cRocking The Daisies Festival\u201d held from 2-5 October 2014, Cape Town. In the same 2014, Samthing composed and performed the title sequence of Rhythm City- drama series.<\/p>\n

Samthing Soweto appeared at Coke Studio Africa, alongside bassist Shane Cooper and artiste Spoek Mathambo in 2015. Mdolomba was exposed to a large audience through his feature on producer Sun-El Musicians’ track, “Akanamali” in May 2017. The song won them an award at the 24th South African Music Awards for Best Collaboration.<\/p>\n

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Samthing Soweto performs AmaDM, lotto, Amantombazane & Akulaleki Live<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Apple Music South Africa, Samkelo’s second album, Isphitiphithi broke the record, having the highest number of users “pre-adding” the album on the streaming platform before the album release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What You Might Not Know About Samthing Soweto – Early Life, Career, Achievements Samthing Soweto is a popular South African songwriter and singer with the real name Samkelo Lelethu Mdolomba. He had a major breakthrough in the music scene with his feature on record producer Sun-El Musicians’ single, “Akanamali”, released in 2017. He has since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-53208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography","tag-samthing-soweto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}