mrs damon is live from berlin coming up we made an aria singing taxi driver in south africa that's on data of course up and don't forget you can get over the latest news and information around the clock on our website at state of money dot com i'm rebecca it is in berlin thanks for joining. with him how to be gun goes on because when the highest high you know if i had known that the boat would be that small i never would have gone on the trip you know i would not have put myself and my parents in the dangerous part of the theme of the what a beautifully would. love one funk that one of those would be because i'm i have

serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there what i'm going to. want to know their story and for migrants terrified and for horrible information for margaret's. men seem in goma exults in opera but he earns his living driving a taxi in his hometown of durban south africa. the law making me a passenger took a video of him singing and it went viral. is going high. but is the hype enough to launch

a real career carlos. who was no most bought the. fly over. then he knows every street and alley in durban he's been driving on them for 2 years now and when he drives he loves to sing often to the surprise of his passengers 1 was all was she. saying they thought is that it's a radio old some city hall and yes besides all that bad bob play i'm just i'm just going to let go and then there. is that is that really you ever let your. sense the video came out his phones hardly stopped to ringing with invitations to castings inquiries from sponsors and bookings for performances let's take this.

time and remember you know i'm going to sell i'm going to i'm going to be rammed. home you. know morning you want i. don't think. we have an introductory if you martin oh i mean if you know him down here and we have you do you know do you think you know anything going to be we won't pay you for that oh really but this. it's just me talking something that was nothing you could see at the start of the day just telling me that it's just get to my emotions so much because i didn't realize it will go the spot i thought maybe if it can just go. to facebook maybe hundreds or throughout the year was one of them or just said can you bring that guy to come and perform in my wedding or something like that just just

a small things it's all the world be like kids. in fact he had long been active in durban's music scene performing at concerts and taking part in competitions but it had never been more than a hobby. now every one of his rehearsals is live streamed menzi hopes to keep people talking about him. the. music teacher subelement kanya has known menzi since childhood but even before menzies big discovery they met several times a month to practice mensing never formally studied voice. since he was young i could see that is something special i'm so proud of him for his achievement in the moment. i don't i don't even know it's full for 48 the m m m m m

m so peaceful. it's amazing this is this i've been praying for this for a long time and i sing and on stage is you know he because the even if he does have a toilet. he's even received a call from a men's wear shop which lent him a tuxedo for his next performance. please . i feel. like i. can't stress. this. like an opera singer the guy who's driving and he sings i'm a cook it is very interesting you know so it's true i was really excited to meet him and with even greater now that i see him in person. the next day nancy takes

a plane from durban to cape town he's been invited to perform at the voices of south africa singing competition is optimistic. it's a good laugh a sad. moment to see. i'm so excited about this to the whole team just spokes kids out. it's like it was important to them. even so menzi is seen as the underdog many of his competitors are professionals who studied music formally for added motivation the prize money is 30000 round about 2000 euro just yet. the son of home he even gives it one last run through in the dressing room was. in really really cool. he sings an aria from the opera tamanna by gamers peter

shanda. for was the the. the. come. out of the. was. home. the audience approved. the city for his pay for so to do it. to full of his voice and to send it through and each it will face was amazing and

wonderful and well executed his work on my sound means performance of it improving his voice was amazing. time for the jury's decision. to. release. these. there was. i. honestly think that the experience he got he wants us to take. a tour around the country. back in durban a few weeks later. and then she lives in this township with his partner and 2

children. they're going to get out of the city for a while and visit his parents in the country. my family's by the study comes in was the old limbo must where you find that the whole family will come odds maybe with some cause so good subplots one person. means in one. news it's like competition saw the will come my dead it will take off. and then my mom was not then the jessup. sole it was just a good thing. room to move in the menzies parents are both talented

singers they used to sing in a choir and often used to sing at home as well. as see a lot of the do all these are told. on display in the living room or the trophies menzi won at regional singing contests. menzi has great ambitions in december he plans to fly to the united states for a casting he shows his mother his fundraising page by which he hopes to raise the money for the trip from people he's never personally met. opportunity for perform a. mission although they are. now. if i'm being stout. there is only one call for me is to be an interest now performa. that's all and that's only my wish i just want to be an internet stop performa been

reported as when i go to china are being recognised when i go to england are being recognised everywhere so that's my wish. fulfilled menzies father is an out of work truck driver and his mother is a traditional healer he joined together to communicate with their ancestors the suit tradition and pray from n.z. success. the vehicle will bring. you and. the full part of the city to new york but the greater the pride the higher the expectations. on what i'd like to have a job i'm very excited and happy that my son may even be going abroad. but he mustn't forget the fruit away he comes from coal. oh my course he's going to represent to the family with pride i was. and he should

think of us as parents even if all goes well for him as mayor night. jim didn't lock. up but in the meantime countless other videos have also gone viral on social media the big hype over menzi is dying down the last time that the city and i'm single now call myself a hustler i'm special so by that i just don't carry that and then have that evil but i because at the end up to date you saw on the 5 that i did and it's a i need to put bread on the table so i can say i'm special and keep it keep motivating myself with nonsense so i just need to i just it's a wake up of what this is south africa that people do with my status that people will take but they don't weigh. the. next rehearsal in durban together with the city's modest

circle of opera singers hardly any of them can manage to earn a living with their music. pete. was. nancy's friends and colleagues are all rooting for him. and i must say the cause of what. a mom must say at the cost of an in-patient which is a could see. at the moment says menzies luck is on his side so he's got to use it while he can and hope for a turn on the big opera stage. on the. old .

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