TIMELESS MAGAZINE Issue 02
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Welcome to TIMELESS MAG, we speaks to an ever-inflating audience of diverse, young creative South Africans. If you have to put the our audience in a box and profile them, you'd find a racially diverse group of ingenious, intelligent South African males & females, aged anywhere
between 18 and 50, residing in Urban & Rural areas with access to internet via cell phones, desktops & laptops; and hungry for fresh, unrestricted perspectives on the South African experience.
Our aim is to produce the most relevant South African culture mag that interrogates, reflects and represents Southern Africa cultures, influential individuals, music and reality . We talk credibly with an influential, discerning, creative & racially-integrated segment - majority of young South Africans.
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<strong>TIMELESS</strong> MAG<br />
By Godlive Masinge (Dj Gibbz), Image sourced online<br />
TI M ELES S MAG ISSUE <strong>02</strong> OCTOBER 2017<br />
PAPA PENNY LEAPS FROM DISCO TO HOUSE<br />
The colourful and charismatic Penny<br />
Penny has moved with the times. The<br />
Tsonga Disco and a reality superstar<br />
have made the leap into house music,<br />
releasing Siyayi Vuma, his first album in the<br />
House genre few weeks ago. This is his<br />
first release in years after taking a break<br />
while concentrating in his fulltime duties as<br />
the ANC Ward Councillor. Penny Penny,<br />
born Eric Nkovane, described his new<br />
album as "rhythmic" and a gift to South<br />
Africans for always believing in him. He<br />
said the sound of the album was inspired<br />
by the change of times.<br />
"Music is like life, it moves fast therefore we<br />
must keep up with the times but not lose<br />
ourselves while at it. Yes this is a different<br />
tone from what people may know me for<br />
but I'm still Penny Penny no matter what<br />
angle you may look at me from”, he said.<br />
The album features the likes of DJ Maphorisa<br />
(known for working magic with his<br />
beats, also a member of the award winning<br />
band UHURU), 2ice, DJ Thakzin, Shisaboy,<br />
Zaqu, Howard, Xander Ferreira and offers<br />
two remixes of his famous hits. The Clash<br />
of the Choirs choirmaster is still an ANC<br />
Ward Councillor in Giyani, Limpopo. But his<br />
energy is focused on being back in the<br />
music business and he aims to scoop<br />
some of the most coveted music awards on<br />
offer. He still keeps in touch with his choir<br />
from Limpopo & wants to record an album<br />
for them.<br />
"I would like to thank Endemol & M-Net for<br />
recognising me. I am now known by young<br />
people because of the show", he said.<br />
Penny Penny added that he is now back &<br />
is juggling government responsibilities with<br />
his re-energised commitment to music. "I'm<br />
still standing as the ANC Ward Councillor.<br />
People appreciate my dedication in delivering<br />
the best for them. They want me to<br />
stay". Penny Penny also dropped a hint<br />
that he would be opening a grooming<br />
school for aspiring musicians and facilitates<br />
a cross-pollination of ideas between<br />
youngsters and veterans in music.<br />
By Godlive Masinge - Image sourced online<br />
HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU<br />
DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT PENNY PENNY:<br />
# His debut album, “Shaka Bundu” remains best<br />
selling Tsonga Traditional Music ever, having<br />
sold over 250000 copies in its release in 1994.<br />
# He is the only SA artist who had a National tour<br />
in Mozambique, performing in every provincial<br />
capital and other major towns.<br />
# He is the only Tsonga artist who had major<br />
success in 2 genres, Tsonga Disco & Makhwaya<br />
(Tsonga Traditional Music) & now he is crossing<br />
over to House.<br />
# He has never changed his hair style since 1994.<br />
# After the death of Peta Teanet, wild rumours<br />
implicated him, of which he dealt with the rumours<br />
in his “Juri-Juri” album, saying those who killed<br />
Teanet are in jail.<br />
# He used to be a dancer for Peta Teanet, worked<br />
as a cleaner, miner, a cook and as a farm worker.<br />
# Penny Penny’s other name is Kulani.<br />
# He once beefed with Dr. Thomas Chauke, Joe<br />
Shirimani, Benny Mayengani and the late Peta<br />
Teanet.<br />
# He is the first black SA artist who turned politician<br />
and became a Ward Councilor for the ANC.<br />
# Joe Shirimani gave him his first break in music,<br />
but the record label thought he was just a clown<br />
at first.<br />
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