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tv   Reporter  Deutsche Welle  October 21, 2019 8:45am-9:01am CEST

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taken me a passenger took a video of him singing and it went viral. these going high. but is the hype enough to launch a real career harlow who was no most bottom in the. hall with the. 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 she. saying the thought is that it's a radio old saddam city your years besides all that bad play i'm just i'm just going to take my ball and then there are a lot of. things that is that really. gets to me.
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since 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. minute. i'm going to sell i'm going to i'm going to be run. between home you. know morning new one i. don't think. we have and in fact are now in the month oh i mean even you know we induct here and we have a new dinner and you know if you're not going to be here we won't pay you for that oh really this. is just give me one talk with somebody that was nothing you could see you know the side. they just pull would tell you. that it's just get to my emotions so much because i didn't realize. it will go the
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spot at the at 10 just old school to facebook maybe hundreds or 2 on the deal 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 would solve a world of legends. 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 said bello makhanya has known menzi 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
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could see that is something special i'm so proud of him for his achievement at the moment it's. i don't even know it's full for 48 that m m m m m m so peaceful in front of his it's amazing this is this i've been planning for this for a long time and a scene and on stage is you know 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. at least. i'm feeling. a. bit of. stress.
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this is like an opera singer a guy who's driving and he sings i'm a cookie this is very interesting you know so i'm just sure i was really excited to meet him and his even better 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 he's optimistic. to be my 1st time to see the public to see. mean that i'm so excited about this the whole team just puts pins on. its side. 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
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one last run through in the dressing room was. then really really ready. he sings an aria from the opera tama nano by gave her fetus handle. form was the. the. one thing come. out of the. was. was. was.
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the audience approved. the 2 for history for so do it if it took hold of his voice and we send it to him each it will phase was amazing and wonderful and well as such as a my son means his performance of a beat improving his voice was amazing. time for the jury's decision. to. release. these. before. i. honestly think that this period so yeah yeah he wants us to take. which i will come.
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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 my life started from so it was the old limbo must him where you will find that like the whole segment that will come odds maybe when smoke was so good subplots one person having. been seen 1. 6 legged competition saw that will come my dead it will take off. and that my mom was the kid then though they were just up the. soul it was just
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a good thing. lulu on. 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 dual use of a hollow. 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 the former. mission although they are. now.
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if i'm 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 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. 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. of a miracle. and. for the. fun of continuing it 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
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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 even if all goes well for him as a smelly night. jim did not. but in the meantime countless other videos have also gone viral on social media the big hype over menzi is dying down. last time that the only ones who come out call myself a hustler i'm special so by that i just don't carry that and then have that eagle but i do because at the end of the day you saw about 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 keep motivating myself with nonsense so i just need to i just need to wake up and what
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this is south africa that people with monstrous that people will take but they don't wake. 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. cd. the man sees friends and colleagues are all rooting for him. and i must say the coast up with. a mom must say the ghost of an impatient which is a good scene. 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. loading
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