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Bongani Ndlovu Showbiz Correspondent
ISIDINGO actor, Sechaba (Motlatsi Mafatshe) feels torn between his first love music, directing and acting and says he might drop acting for some time to pursue his musical career.
The South African actor was in the country last Saturday and heads a group called Mo and the Dark Knights that specialises in Funk, R&B, Kwaito, Hip Hop, Rock and Soul.
Sechaba said when his musical career starts making a lot of money he would quit acting.
“Once the music makes a lot of money I’ll probably leave acting for a minute. Right now acting pays the bills, I make more money through acting, the music is still coming up. I’ve a big team and it’s a business venture that’s growing. Maybe at the right time when I’ve learnt, I’ll turn to full time music.
“So that’s what I’m dealing with personally, particularly when you’ve to choose either or it’s very difficult,” said Sechaba.
He said it was a difficult thing to choose what to focus on judging by the fact that music, directing and acting were all his passions.
“It’s challenging to do all that; sometimes you’ve to make a choice. Like in film school we were told that when you shoot a movie not every scene will make it into it. Also we were told sometimes we have to ‘kill your babies’ for the project to be amazing. You can imagine how hard it is. Sometimes you’ve to neglect what you love the most,” said Sechaba.
“All these years I neglected music and it’s my first love but I had to focus on the other, acting. Now that I was acting and the music thing is growing, then directing is coming up, now I feel like I’ve to kill that baby which might be acting for a while.”
Sechaba said he wanted to do everything he could to leave a legacy for his children.
“You only live once and you’ve to do as much as you can in one lifetime. It’s a pity that you can’t do it all at once for your life to become fruitful and worthwhile, so that when you retire and look back and say I’ve done so much. So that your children can be proud of you,” he said.
Turning to his music, Sechaba said the group had released a track ‘Keep on marching’ that he performed live on set during the recording of the Arthur C Evans Show.
He described his music as Negro Soul inspired by American music icons such as Ray Charles.
“I know that as Africans we love such type of music. When you hear the sound, it’s not foreign to us we love it and accept it because they were taken from Africa to America but the uniqueness of the sound is still alive within them. We can relate with them easily,” said Sechaba.
“In November we shall release an album on my birthday. We’re planning to do a Iive DVD recording of the album on during the launch. We’ve a huge following and people love our music.”
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