Botswana’s Channel O video awards nominee, Game ‘Zeus’ Bantsi rounds
off his South Africa tour this week with media interviews in the
neighbouring country as he continues his campaign to promote his music
outside Botswana.
The Hip-Hop star returns home later in the week to feature in this
weekend’s Spring Explosion. Zeus performed at events in Pretoria on
Wednesday and Johannesburg on Sunday. The award-winning musician is out
to use his recent Channel O nomination, the fourth in his career, to
broaden his external fan base.
He has been nominated for the prestigious Channel O Awards that are
set for November 17 at the Walter Sisulu Square in Johannesburg. Zeus, a
2011 Big Brother Africa (BBA) contestant, is in the running for the
Most Gifted African: South video award courtesy of his song titled
Dancing Shoes.
He is vying for the accolade alongside South Africa’s HHP for his hit
single, Bosso Ke Mang. But for now, Zeus will focus on promoting his
music in the neighbouring country. The Hip-hop ace’s manager, Tshepo
‘Rox’ Sikwane revealed that their promotional expedition was well on
course.
“We are trying to keep him there more often. We need to get into the
South African market because the Botswana market is quite small looking
at the population.” He said the nomination was heartening considering
that it was Zeus’ first Dance project.
Interestingly, the Dancing Shoes project was merely a pilot dance music venture for Botswana’s Hip Hop pin up.
“This is an encouragement as we did a genre which was not known. As
we look back, we do believe Zeus has done well for himself. It was a
success and we look forward to the awards and hope Batswana will support
him,” he told Showbiz. Zeus, a one-time Channel O award winner, is the
only Botswana nominee in the 14 categories at the ninth edition of the
awards.
Since the inception of the awards, Batswana artists, Mista Doe, Acid,
Scar and Zeus, have had the privilege of bringing home some awards for
their respective music videos. Meanwhile, Zeus’ collaboration with
Malawi’s Lomwe Double Wowza is getting airplay on Channel O. The duo
have also released three radio singles while the whole project will be
available for download on an upcoming Double Wowza website.
Lomwe says he is happy for Zeus’ nomination and believes his
associate deserves the recognition. To vote for Zeus send a text message
of his code (11D) to +27839208406 or other social sites MXit and
Facebook.
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