TKZEE


Three- member Kwaito act TKZee announced themselves in 1996 with their debut release, a mini-album called Take It Eezy. It is a catchy fusion of R&B, Rap, Hip Hop and Kwaito and it established TKZee as musical innovators. Considered by many as being musically ahead of its time, the album took the trio to prominence.

Zwai is classically trained and mixes his talents with the street-hardened rapping skills of Tokollo (TK) and Kabelo (Bouga). They are one of the most popular Kwaito groups around. Two years after the release of Take It Eezy, TKZee caught the attention of the public with the singles Shibobo and Phalafala. Within weeks Phalafala was smoking up the radio airwaves nationwide. TKZee hit the road hard with their energetic, in -your-face live performances creating a huge buzz.

Phalafala featured a guest appearance by fellow Kwaito star S'bu and in turn TKZee appeared on S'bu's solo album Mzala, for which Zwai produced three tracks. TKZee hooked up with Bafana Bafana and Ajax Amsterdam super-striker Benni McCarthy prior to the 1998 Soccer World Cup in France and released the sensational Shibobo single in June 1998. The single captured the imagination of a Kwaito crazy and soccer mad country competing in it's first ever Soccer World Cup. Sales topped the 100 000 mark in just over a month, making it the fastest and biggest selling CD single by a South African recording artist in history.