This Sunday South African Hip Hop giant, K.O will be storming the Big Brother Africa stage with his trademark style and swagger. You can look forward to an awesome performance from this talented
Ntokozo “K.O” Mdluli was born in Soweto,
Johannesburg to Thembisile Mdluli and Jabulani Mdluli. As a child, his
family moved to Piet Retief in Mpumalanga. K.O’s early music influences
were greats like Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre, these artists influenced him to
be an MC and dreamed of one day being a Hip Hop great.
KO began persuing a career as a solo
artist but he met Ntukza and Ma-E at Vaal University of Technology where
he received his PR degree. The three of them formed the group Teargas
and have to date released four critically acclaimed, award winning and
commercially successful albums; “K’shubile K’bovu”, “Wafa Wafa”, “Dark
Or Blue” and “Num8er Num8er”. The success and popularity of Teargas has helped build K.O into a star.
Through his various collaborations with
other artists K.O has become the most prominent member of Teargas. Some
of his collaborations include “God’s Will” with AKA, “We Rolling” with
L-Tido and “Just Dream”, a Hansa Pilsener brand campaign song with Zakes
Bantwini and Big Nuz’ Mampintsha.
In 2013 K.O alongside Teargas’ Ma-E
teamed up with long time music and marketing executive Thabiso Khati to
start Cashtime Life, an all encompassing entertainment and lifestyle
company with a 360 degree approach that exclusively focuses on urban
youth culture entertainment. K.O is the company’s first artist; his
first single “Mission Statement” is enjoying massive airplay across
Southern Africa and East Africa.
On March 3rd K.O released his highly
anticipated second single “Caracara”, which features Kid X another
Cashtime Life artist. Caracara is a township colloquial for the VW
Caravelle mini bus; back in the 1990’s the Caravelle was a symbol of
cool and a party vehicle of choice. “Caracara” is K.O’s ode to this
legendary vehicle and how it featured in South African township
lifestyle of the 1990’s. Since its release the song has gone to chart on
iTunes Top Songs Chart and is enjoying massive support from radio and
clubs.
We can’t wait for his anticipated stunning performance!
Big Brother Africa
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