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Cue: Khanyisile Mateke is a girl who is gifted vocally. She learnt this about herself when she was still in primary school. With the support and encouragement of her family, she joined the worship team at her church and the school choir.

 She entered for multiple talent shows when she was still in school. In those talent shows, she managed to win a few of them. And that is when her peers and family encouraged her to open a YouTube channel. With a bit of self-doubt she did not entertain the idea until this year, January 2021. Now she is a YouTuber that goes by the name Pheobe, who does song covers. Last year she entered the competition for Idols SA and unfortunately she did not make it to the aired shows, but she made it to the top 300.

Time in/ outSourceContent
00-0:11KhanyisileShe sings ‘from a distance’ by Bette Midler
00:08:-0:30NarrationIt is a Thursday evening, Khanyisile Mateke, a musician and a YouTuber arrives at Zisanda Solwandle’s apartment for the interview. As she walks in, climbing the stairs, she tells her how the complex she lives in reminds her of Gauteng.
00:21- 00:30AmbienceA sound of footsteps and a sound of a door opening (the volume not that loud, but enough for one to hear).
00:30-00:36NarrationAfter settling down, Khanyisile tells Zisanda about  herself and her love for music.
00:37-00:42KhanyisileI am Khanyisile Mateke, I am 19 years old and I am from Easter park in Gauteng.
00:43-00:45KhanyisileThe one thing I love the most has to be music
00:45-00:46ZisandaWhy?
00:47-01:00KhanyisileI honestly feel like its the one language that regardless of your ethnicity, your racial background or whatever it is that makes you different is the one thing we can all relate to and enjoy
01:01-01:05KhanyisileI was 6 years old when I realized that i could sing
01:06-01:10NarrationKhanyisile tells me about the steps she took after she learnt that she could sing
1:12-1:25KhanyisileMy parents encouraged me to join the choir at school, to join talent competitions, to join choir at church and fortunately since my dad was the head pastor I was able to do that at a young age
1:25-1:30ZisandaWhen did you start joining entering for talent shows
1:31- 1:48ZisandaI only started joining talent shows a ot more from grade six because we had a school concert and then from grade 6 till high school I was competing in talent shows every year
1:49-1:51ZisandaDid you win any?
1:52-1:53KhanyisileYes I did
1:54-1:57NarrationKhanyisile sings turning tables by Adele
1:58-2:40KhanyisileSings turning tables
2:40- 2:43ZisandaI know that you have a YouTube channel, what is the name of your channel?
2:44-2:51ZisandaThe name of my channel is Phoebe Mateke. I opened the channel this year in January, 2021
2:44-2:45ZisandaWhy
2:45:3:03KhanyisileThroughout high school I used to get feedback from my peers suggesting that I should open one and from my family members as well, so I decided its finally time
3:04-3:06NarrationKhanyisile shares her future plans
3:07-3:17ZisandaNow that you have told me that you won a few competitions, is it in your bucket list to enter for The Voice SA, Idols SA
3::18-3:46KanyisileI was fortunate enough to join or participate  in Idols this year. I made it to the top 300 out of the 15000 of us that auditioned. Ithink that was pretty decent  but I don’t think I would go back. At the moment the main focus is school but I will definitely continue exploring more of my artistic side. I feel like it’s where i find my happiness and my peace
3;47-3:50ZisandaSo we will be seeing more of you?
3:51-3:53KhanyisileYes definitely
3:53-4:14KhanyisileClose off with Khanyisile’s cover of Afrodisiac by Brandy
   
   
   

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Hey everyone. I am Zisanda Solwandle, a 20 year old who is a third year student doing Journalism and Media Studies in Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape. This is an art blog hence the name Artistry. This blog will be displaying some of the crafts, paintings of the Rhodes Arts students that I find mostly interesting and also the works of the artists here in Makhanda also known as Grahamstown If you are someone who is interested in art be it paintings or hand crafted pieces like I am, you will surely enjoy reading and browsing through the blog. Hopefully you will find more interesting pieces that you would like to buy.

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