adminLungisa Xhamela, 25, from Langa in the Cape became the first guy to be voted out of the Idols SA Season 11 Top 10 on Sunday evening. Idols SA host ProVerb made the announcement at the State Theatre in Pretoria shortly after the start of the live broadcast of the Top 7 “Showstopper” spectacular.
With more than 5,5 million votes cast for the Top 8, it came down to Lungisa and Siphelele Ngcobo, 24, from Inanda as to who would be the first guy to leave the Top 10. Paarl beauty queen Nadia Herbst was the first Top 10 contestant sent home, and last week Idols SA bade farewell to Elwira Standili from Worcester — which also makes Lungisa’s ousting this week the third blow in a row for the Western Cape.
Lungisa gave up his studies in medical bioscience at the University of the Western Cape this year to pursue his musical dreams full-time for the sake of his two-year-old daughter, who lives with his parents in Port Elizabeth.
“I got everything I wanted from this experience —and more . . .” he commented as he left the Idols stage on Sunday.
“This competition has opened up so many doors for me, and I’m excited to get out there and get my career started.” — AllAfrica.
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