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tv   Reporter  Deutsche Welle  October 20, 2019 10:15pm-10:30pm CEST

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but the question isn't what kind of 19 hour flight is this is it with what steak dinners are you getting a microwave meal or you're next to a crying baby in the middle seat so that's really the question for me it's tempting though it's time to tell no one thanks so much you're watching the news up next we meet an opera singing taxi driver from south africa about something the reporter and so much for watching. oh. oh. oh oh oh.
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live. oh. after the fall of the berlin november night. men seem in goma exults in opera but he earns his living driving a taxi in his hometown of durban south africa. the la economy a passenger took a video of him singing and it went viral. is going high. but is the hype enough to launch
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a real career horowitz. who was no most bought the. old. men 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 was all is should be in bed but isn't that it's a radio old saddam city your yes piece out of that bad play i'm just i'm just going to let go and then the lead. is that is that the reason you ever let your it's to me. since the video came out his phones hardly stopped to ringing with invitations to castings inquiries from sponsors and bookings for performances it's at this. time. the m.s.l.
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i'm going to i'm going to be around. your home you. know morning you want i. don't. think we have an introductory hour in the martin oh i mean if you know him down here and we have you dinner you know you think you know anything going to be real world pay you for that oh really the just . just keep on talking and talking that night was nothing you could see at the start of the day just to tell you. that this just gets to my emotions so much because i didn't realize it will go the spot i thought maybe it can just go to to facebook maybe hundreds or sure that there was one of them or just saying can you bring that guy to come and perform in my wedding
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or something like that just just a small things it's all the world like it that. 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. news it teacher said baylen makhanya has known menzies since childhood but even before menzies big discovery they met several times a month to practice mentoring never formally studied voice. since he was young i can see that is something special i'm so proud of him for his achievement at the moment. i am i don't even know it's full for 48 that m m m m m
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m so peaceful. it's amazing this is this i've been before this for a long time and i've seen and on the big open stages because the eve 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. the police. really. to. break up. the stress of. the future it's. like an opera singer a guy who's driving and he sings i'm a cook it is very interesting you know sir it's true i was really excited to meet him and to see even better now that i see him in person. the next day menzi takes
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a plane from durban to cape town he's been invited to perform at the voices of south africa singing competition he's optimistic. because of the marxists and. the public to see. and so excited about this to the whole team just a book stands on. its side the importance of. 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 hockey even gives it one last run through in the dressing room was. an great relief.
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he sings an aria from the opera tamanna by gave her freakish handle. the the. the. one thing for the. love of. god. was. the audience approved. by the city for history for the so that it was too full of his voice and the saying that it had to do and which it will face was
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amazing and wonderful and well executed is what i saw and means before it's a baby moving his voice was amazing. time for the jury's decision and. if we. ease. their will. i. honestly think that the experience yeah yeah he wants us to take. it to come to. a. back in durban a few weeks later. when she lives in this township with his partner and 2
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children. they're going to get out of the city for a while and visit his parents in the country. my family's my eyes started from so it was the old limbo muslim elite 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 that will come my dead it will take off. and that my mom was not then those that would dress up the. soul it was just a good thing. lulu on the in the menzies parents are both talented singers they used
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to sing in a choir and often used to sing at home as well. she thought a little jewel these are the. on display in the living room are 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 the former. leisure although they are. not. the last time being stout. there is only one goal 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
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performer been reported as when i go to china i've been recognised when i go to england are being recognised everywhere so that's my wish. 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 for menzies success on the vehicle. and in that. part of continuing but the greater the pride the higher the expectations. one would have. i'm very excited and happy that my son may even be going abroad. but he mustn't forget his roots away he comes from coal. oh my course he's going to represent a family without writing about us. and he should think of us as parents
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even if all goes well for him as many linux. jim did in the. uk 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 many of them as we call them i'll 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 of the day you saw on the 5 that i did and it's a i need to put bread on the table so i can say special island keep keep motivated myself with nonsense so i just need to i just it's a wake up and what this is south africa that people with monsters that people will take but they don't weigh. the. next rehearsal in durban together with the city's
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modest circle of opera singers hardly any of them can manage to earn a living with their music. week. menzies friends and colleagues are all rooting for him. i must say the cause. must say the cost of an inpatient which is a pussy. 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. moon sheet.
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