Nomthandazo Ngwetsheni aka Nomty born on the 9th February 1991 is a South African singer. She was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her name translates to “Prayer” in isiXhosa and she speaks three languages. She is an upcoming Afro-Soul vocalist, who refers to her music as “a fusion of soul elements of pop, jazz and African.”
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Her early childhood
She always knew that music was her calling, have loved to sing all her life. Growing up in a musical family, her Granddad being a composer, songwriter and conductor for choral choirs influenced her love for music at an early age.
Life was good for her as a child, she enjoyed putting on shows at home singing along to her favourite artists, but I always had a yearning of being like Brenda Fassie someone who would sing for the love of singing.
We all have life-changing moments and mine came in the form of a tragic train accident where she was travelling with her 3 sister-cousins and grandmother to Johannesburg. At the tender age of 10 she had to listen to her cousins suffer in agony of the train that had de-railed.
— Nomty_Mayine (@Nomty_Mayine) August 26, 2018
Her sister-cousins did not make it and the aftermath of this event (to this day) is like dealing with the aftermath of a Tsunami. 3 children gone and she survived. The emotional guilt that she has carried over the years has been a heavy one. Music went from being a love to being a form of escaping her reality. Life is not easy, the obstacle that we face at times seem virtually impossible to overcome. But in those words, lies the secret to making any dream happen – “It is Possible”.