Shoelace were Top Ten finalists in the 2011 DO YOU ROCK competition on Kingfisher FM<\/a> as well as winning a Standard Bank National Arts Festival Encore Ovation award in 2011.<\/p>\n \u201cA shoelace is a symbol of love and being together \u2013 shoelace ties things together and they don\u2019t easily come undone. I\u2019m a bit of a romantic,\u201d says lead vocalist Ndumiso Ntantiso.<\/p>\n The five piece band come from Motherwell and Zwide, and members include drummer Xola Kulati, keyboard player Muvuzo Nyaka, bass guitarist Zusakhe Gysman and acoustic guitarist Sinoxolo Mbuthuma .<\/p>\n \u201cRocker soul is a kind of music we created on our own according to the backgrounds we have as members. It is pop rock with African elements, blues and soul, sung mostly in English but also in Xhosa.\u201d Shoelace\u2019s biggest hits are What\u2019s Going On and Miss Jones which are both love ballads which have received radio play. \u201cWe are trying to accommodate everyone with our music so we are expanding our repertoire to do more party songs,\u201d Ndumiso explains.<\/p>\n Formed in 2009, Shoelace\u2019s members met at the Motherwell Arts Centre where they were all playing. \u201cIn 2010 we performed at the Fan Park festivals for the Fifa World Cup. That was our learning year for us in the industry. Last year we performed at the Grahamstown Festival and won a National Arts Festival Standard Bank Encore Award.\u201d<\/p>\n The band is on their way to releasing an EP, \u201cwe feel ready and people are demanding it at the same time,\u201d Ndumiso says.<\/p>\n Shoelace says the Hansa Festival of Legends has been a fantastic opportunity for them. \u201cWe have grown as individuals and as a band, we are more serious about our music \u2013 writing and composing. We have seen other ways to promote ourselves and now we have a clearer idea of how to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Ndumiso says the band, which pays the bills by working as session musicians in Nelson Mandela Bay, are campaigning for votes to allow them to get on stage with Usher.<\/p>\n \u201cHopefully in five years time we will be international, with at least two albums under our belts.\u201d<\/p>\n Shoelace<\/p>\n The dynamic six-member H-Zwegellus<\/strong> group hails from the Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth, where they aim to bring the community together with the sound of their music.<\/p>\n H-Zwegellus<\/p>\n The hip hop and rap group was formed in 2000 by Anele Ndimba and Thobani Pikoli, after they met Sivuyile Mtengwana, Zwelethu Madolwana and Samkelo Nonto and Siviwe Bless. The crew are aged between 20 and 22 years old.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is nothing else we can do besides music, we stay at my house everyday and work on it,\u201d says Sivuyile. \u201cWe rap about things that happen in our location, bad things, good things. We tell stories and our stories make people dance.\u201d<\/p>\n When Sivuyile was still a pupil at primary school he was already responsible for making the group\u2019s beats and recording our rhymes. \u201cSo he made music and was an African Renaissance group dancer at the same time, no-one could believe it,\u201d says dedicated manager Michael Makeleni.<\/p>\n H-Zwegellus started performing at a venue called Psypher in the township and at other gigs around the city, building a core group of fans who would travel to see them perform.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Hansa Festival of Legends has helped us in exposing our talent to South Africa. And meeting Usher will be a great opportunity. People in PE are voting for us \u2013 we are the first crew from this township to make it and we are getting support,\u201d Sivuyile says.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to bring life to our community and youths of our country to make their lives better by starting up and doing something good with their lives. There are so many people who support us and we won\u2019t let them regret their belief in us.\u201d<\/p>\n Voting for the top six of South Africa\u2019s rising urban music stars, who have competed for the chance to open for Usher, closes on 22 February 2012.<\/p>\n Vote for your favourite performers online www.hansapilsener.co.za, or via your mobile \u2013 dial *120*793#.<\/p>\n H-Zellegus on Twitter:<\/strong><\/p>\n U saw how we did it @ eyethu?imagine when we perform with Usher on that stage..H-Zwegellus for ever baby now ol u hv 2 do is to vote.<\/span> Two Port Elizabeth music groups have advanced to the finals of the the Hansa Festival of Legends which is being held at Orlando Stadium in Soweto on 10 March. 6 urban artists from around SA which will open for Usher who is the main act \u2013 and one of these six will be from Port […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-8028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Shoelace\"](\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/be682_shoelace.jpg\")
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