Johannesburg- Troymusiq (37) is a singer and firefighter who was born and bred in Tembisa, Johannesburg.
Troymusiq’s real name Tumelo Nonyane was born into a religious musical family.
“Every night when we had prayers with the whole family, we would sing together, even during our family road trips to weddings and funerals it’s our family tradition to sing and pray together,” he said.
Growing up Troymusiq played and listened to a lot of gospel and jazz music, singing to every note that he heard, which influenced his versatile style of music.
“In grade 3 I was chased out of the school choir because apparently, I couldn’t sing but that never stopped me from seeing myself on stage like all those I used to idolize,”.
Tumelo has been and is a firefighter/paramedic by profession for the past 15 years. He started recording music in 2004 when he recorded his unreleased gospel project.
“I kept going to studio every year, till my professional music career picked up in 2017. That is when I officially released my first afro-pop single titled akekho,” he said.
Troymusiq has worked with the legendary DJ Christos in 2016, which was two years before he made his first TV appearance on Afro cafe’ performing his afro-jazz set in 2018 which attracted a lot of house producers.
“I first released a house song with Destro also in 2018 where I attracted a lot of international house producers for features, because of the deep afro approach I took on the song,”.
“I am currently working on an EP which will include the nation pride sounds of amapiano on a song or two, I am also branching into fashion designing with a brand called C.A.V,”, the singer further added.
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