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tv   Reporter  Deutsche Welle  October 21, 2019 10:45am-11:01am CEST

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real career harlow knew she was told just bought to know the. floor oh. then she 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 is she thought isn't that it's a radio all some city hall and yes besides all that bad play i'm just i'm just going to let go and and then let. things that is that really you ever let me get. since the video came out his phones hardly stopped to ringing with invitations to castings inquiries from sponsors and bookings for performances and it's at this. time you. know selves
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i'm going to i'm going to be grant. you know me if. you want i. don't think. we have an introductory if you mind oh i mean if you now we induct here and we have you do you know what you think you know kind of thing is going to be we will tell you oh release the this. is just be on talk to somebody that night there's nothing in it so you know this time . they just will be talking to you but it's just get to my emotions so much because i didn't realize it will go the spot i thought they did it can just go cool so facebook maybe cut it old school and the deal was one of them or just said no can you bring that guy it's a common platform in. just just
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a small things it's. 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 said bello makhanya has known n.z. 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 could see that. something special i'm so proud of him for his achievement in the moment. i am i don't even know it's full for 48 the m m m m m
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m so peaceful and. it's amazing this is i've been pining for this for a long time. and on stages you know he because the 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 . really. to. make up for the. stress. for it's. like an opera singer the guy who's driving and he sings i'm a cook it is very interesting you know so i'm just through i was really excited to meet him and to see even better now that i see him in person. the next day nancy
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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. it's a good life it's not misleading the public to see. i don't believe in that and so excited about this to see just to put some kids out. it's like it was important. 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. mom the son of hockey even gives it one last run through in the dressing room was. an great relief. he sings an aria from the opera tama
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nano by gave her freakish handle support for was the. the. one thing come. out of. the. was. was. was. the audience approved. was beautiful history for the so that it was too full of his voice and to sing the outer door and each and every phrase was
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amazing and wonderful and well executed his work on my sound means his performance of a beat improving his voice was amazing. time for the jury's decision to. release . these. little. i. honestly think that this spirit c.s. guy 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
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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 start at home so it was the old limbo must be where you find that the whole family will come odds maybe it would cause so good subplots one person. means in london the music's like competitions solo that will come my dead it will take off. and then my mom was not. in the way they were just up the. solo it was just a good thing. lou and you'll be in the menzies parents are both talented
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singers they used to sing in a choir and often used to sing at home as well. as the awful do all these a hollow. on display in the living room or the trophies menzi one 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. not. 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 performer
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been written 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 of them. all and in that. part of the continuing but the greater the pride the higher the expectations. on what i'd like. 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 mayor knight. jim didn't walk. on 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 only animals who come 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 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 keep motivated myself with nonsense so i just need to i just need to wake up and 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
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hardly any of them can manage to earn a living with their music. eat. nancy's friends and colleagues are all rooting for him. i must say the cause. must say the cost of an in-patient which is a pussy i am. 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. the. old .
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