SOUTH Africa rising Afro-pop singer Mduduzi Ncube credits God and finding healing through music as his saving grace to break free from a dark period of drug addiction. The 26-year-old “Isiginci” hitmaker opened up to Sowetan on Monday about finding redemption and it started when he was gifted a guitar in 2017. At the age of 15, the musician from Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal, found himself going down the wrong path after he started glue-sniffing and it turned into substance dependence that lasted four years.
“Peer pressure will make you do things. I started sniffing glue from 2013 to 2017. I was addicted to it and in a way, I had given my life to the streets even though I had a home,” he said.
“My life started taking form when I met Jesus at church. I remember waking up and making the decision to give my life to God and I haven’t looked back since. Instead of sniffing the drug, I started playing my guitar that a friend of mine gifted me – it became my new passion and helped me to stop sniffing the glue.
I’ve been clean for almost seven years now.” In 2019, he got his big break after DJ Tira discovered him. He went on to record two songs with the popular music producer, with one of the songs featuring songstress Berita.
However, things went south for Ncube when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, but he remained clean. “I grew up as more of a loner. I found music to be my hero and I’d always sing whenever I’d sit alone in the classroom during break,” he said.
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