EXCLUSIVE: The man of the moment Zakes Bantwini chats to J Sbu about the success of 'Osama'
He is KwaMashu's very own, a platinum selling artist, producer, and an executive at Sony Music Africa, a dad, a husband, and one of J Sbu's music idols. He is Zakes Bantwini.
Listen to J Sbu's interview with Zakes Bantwini below:
It may only be September but the song of the summer and year may have already dropped, and the artist who gets these bragging rights is Zakes Bantwini.
His single, 'Osama', has been taking South Africa by storm.
Before its official release, Zakes shared a short snippet of the smash hit that immediately went viral on social media. The demand became high for Bantwini to officially drop the single so that South African music fans could 'spend their coins' on him and show their support by purchasing it.
17 September 2021 #osama WORLDWIDE release 🙏, Thank you all for the support, let's rock ... pic.twitter.com/UcqmQPB82L
— Zakes Bantwini (@ZakesBantwiniSA) August 20, 2021
I did not think that people were going to just... you know... it was going to catch fire immediately. I thought it was going to grow; something that has to grow with people until such time that people wanted to hear it, and it surprised us
Fast forward to present day, 'Osama' is charting on almost every music chart show, as well as music download platform.
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J Sbu, who is a music producer himself, is a big fan of Bantwini and when the opportunity of interviewing the man himself arose, he was beyond excited!
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The two chatted about 'Osama', his new project, and everything in between including family life with his beautiful wife Nandi Madida.
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Main image courtesy of Zakes Bantwini.
Osama is available for download on all digital platforms.