BY PHUMZILE NDLOVU
MALKERNS – South African rapper Focalistic will headline this year’s MTN Bushfire Firefly Grand Finale, which will be held on April 26 at House on Fire.
MTN Bushfire Firefly is a youth music talent competition for the young, gifted, and free. This is where the Firefly Top 10 finalists battle it out for the top three spots to perform at MTN Bushfire 2024.
The 17th edition of the MTN Bushfire Festival will be held on May 31–June 02.
Focalistic, born Lethabo Sebetso 27 years ago, rose to fame with his song titled ‘Ke Star’ which reached number 16 on the Billboard Top Triller Global Charts in 2017. He has passionately promoted Amapiano across the globe and was nominated for Best African Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2021. Focalistic is currently sitting on over 300 million streams across all DSPs, with over 1.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Last year, the finale was headlined by Zimbabwean-South African hip-hop rapper and television personality Nadia Nakai. It is worth mentioning that last year the competition was also open to South African artists for the first time, and two artists made it to the top four, namely Viwe and Nardie.
The talent that was displayed by the 10 contestants last year was so remarkable that the team ended up picking four spots, and two local artists made it to the top four spots, namely, M Nation and Young TMPO.
The MTN Bushfire Firefly applications opened on March 7, and it closed on Sunday. The application was open to Eswatini artists aged 16–35 who have at least two original recorded tracks.
Tickets are available on MTN Eswatini MoMo Marketplace via WhatsApp:
Send “Hi” to 7808 4000 via WhatsApp.
Select Option 5: MoMo Ticketing.
Select Option 1: Events.
Select Option 5: MTN Bushfire Firefly.
Follow the prompts to buy
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