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Mandoza (real name Mduduzi Tshabalala) is a South African kwaito musician.

Early life.

Mandoza was born in the Zola South section of Soweto, where he shared a house with his parents, his grandparents and two sisters. When he was sixteen years old he was charged with stealing a car and received a one-and-a-half year sentence, which he served in Diepkloof prison.

When he was released from prison, Mandoza formed the group Chiskop along with three childhood friends, S’bu, Siphiwe and Siszwe.

Musical career.

The group signed its first record contract eight years after its formation and released their debut album, Klaimer, later followed by Ghetto 2000.

Although Chiskop achieved great success and was widely seen to be at kwaito’s forefront, Mandoza also started a solo career; in 1999 he released the top-selling (more than 100,000 units sold) album 9II5 Zola South, for which he gained a 2000 FNB South African Music Awards Best Newcomer nomination.

He subsequently released the album Nkalakatha in 2000, which won multi-platinum status. The title track became a crossover hit and reached the top of the charts on both traditionally black and white radio stations. This album won the Best Kwaito Music Album category and the album’s title track won the Song Of The Year category at the South African Music Awards in 2001. Mandoza also won in five of the ten categories at the 2001 Metro Music Awards: Best Kwaito Artist, Best Male Vocalist, Best Album, Best Styled Artist and Song Of The Year. Finally, also in 2001, Mandoza won the Best Artist - Southern Africa category at the Kora All Africa Music Awards.
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  • ArtificialCyst

    NKALAKATHA! Jesus, it [positevely] tears my brain apart... Again and again Nkalakatha!

    24 Feb 8:51pm Reply

  • rnrdt

    Nkalakatha or whatever it's called is practically the definition of every South African kid around my age.

    30 Apr 2011 Reply

  • Deteti

    Mfana wase kasi kwaito is Mandoza

    16 Oct 2010 Reply

  • pornoyeshilde

    cool!

    6 Aug 2010 Reply

  • Guegs

    Don't understand a word of this, but it has a good beat so I listen to it haha.

    19 Feb 2010 Reply

  • metalickl

    Mandoza! Nkalakatha!!

    17 Oct 2009 Reply

  • CaptureTheCat

    Mandoza's best music

    6 Mar 2009 Reply

  • davidfeldt

    Ngiyabonga gakhulu - Gadengaguthina! AWESOME!

    1 Mar 2009 Reply

  • jess502

    Jam that 50 50!

    25 Sep 2008 Reply

  • lounga

    f%$& man, super music, kweito rules !!

    18 Jun 2008 Reply

  • xJoXxEx

    hey! please, i've been looking for the danny k's 3 cds + mandoza & danny k album, Can you upload the cds to mediafire or any free server, please?

    3 Oct 2007 Reply

  • frittenkammer

    mandoza is so awesome, i really love it although i do not unterstand a single word. whatever it sounds so good and some songs like phunyuka bamphete are really suitable for listening to it in the car while the windows are down and the volume high. thats the shit :-D

    11 Aug 2007 Reply

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