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Dance duo’ Distruction Boyz have achieved their goal of becoming the first artists with a strictly gqom album to reach gold status.
Thobane ‘Que’ Mgobozi and his bandmate Zipho ‘Goldmax’ Mthembu took to social media yesterday to announce that their album’ Gqom Is The Future had reached gold status, eight weeks after its release.
“We’re proud to announce that today, history has been made again. Our album has officially been certified gold. It has not really sunk in but South Africa we did it’ together. You + God + us = we did it.”
Their manager Lindo Buthelezi said the pair was still in disbelief about their dream becoming a reality.
“You can just imagine how it feels breaking a record. It’s amazing and for the boys, it hasn’t sunk it in. It took about 7/8 weeks for the album to hit gold.”
He said the boys were already “on to the next one” and were chasing another record which they would announce early January.
Gqom is a genre of dance music popular in Durban’ only made mainstream recently by the likes of Babes Wodumo and DJ Tira. The dance duo’s Omunye Phez’ Komunye is a firm fan favourite. — Sowetan
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