Joy Keys chats with South Africa's King of R&B Loyiso

Sept. 18, 2010 - PRLog -- South Africa's King of R&B Loyiso Bala
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DATE: Saturday September 25, 2010

TIME: 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.  ET

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As a teenager Loyiso Bala was trained at the prestigious Drakensburg Boys Choir in South Africa, where he nurtured his classical voice. He finished top of his class!

After overwhelming success with legendary Kwaito act TKZee in 2000, Loyiso decided to release his own singles ‘Musukukhala’ and ‘Silky Soft Skin’ in 2001. The singles laid the foundation for Loyiso’s solo career and he went on to released his first album “Wine Woman and Song” in 2003, and his second album ‘Amplified’ in 2005. These albums solidified Loyiso’s reputation as South Africa’s king of R&B, with singles such as ‘Girl Without A Name’, ‘Angel’, ‘Gimme The Night’, ‘Cappuccino’ and ‘Cuban’.

Since then, he has had and won multiple awards ranging from Best R&B album of 2007 at the Metro FM Awards, 5 SAMA nominations - South African Music Awards - 3 Metro FM awards, Best R&B and Best Producer at the SAMA awards 2008, was nominated for best song of 2009 and 2010 at the SAMAs for ‘Blow Your Mind’ and ‘Maybe’ respectively. He was also nominated at the MTV awards alongside Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Akon and P Square and is known for his recent style awards including “You” Magazine and GQ’s most stylish male in the country.

He has performed alongside artists of the highest caliber including Jamelia, Corinne Bailey Rae, John Legend, Brian McKnight, Elton John, Will Smith and Akon.

Loyiso is an ambassador for the 46664 campaigns, the Smile Foundation and most recently MaAfrika Tikkun. His partnership with 46664 lead him to put on a stellar performance for and audience of over 46,000 at the Nelson Mandela 46664 concert in Hyde Park in July 2008, to perform at the Madison Square Gardens, New York in July 2009 and at Radio City Hall, New York for Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday celebration on the 18th of July 2009.

In May 2010 he released his new single ‘Wrong For You’, written by Robin Thicke and Sean Hurley and will be releasing his full-length album before the end of 2010.

He performed alongside Alicia Keys, Shakira, the Black Eyed Peas and John Legend at the FIFA World Cup Kick-Off celebration concert, which took place at Soweto's 30,000-capacity Orlando Stadium on the 10th of June, a day before the opening match of the 2010 World Cup.

Website:http://www.loyisomusic.com

YouTube video clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAXMJolyUeM


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