Amanda Faku on Bush Radio 89.5 FM Talking about her music

Amanda Faku, was born and bred in Port Elizabeth on the coast of the Eastern Cape. She currently lives there and she is doing her second year at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU).

Faku’s true passion lies in her music, but she considers studying to be an important part of her life, as a back-up plan. She feels that studying Accounting will help her in the long run to become independent and specially to understand numbers better. Faku says that it is important for her to work hard in whatever she wants to achieve.

Amanda Ami Faku

Faku’s achievements this year include meeting great producers. She feels that she now has access to a lot of things and in helping her music represent herself. She has described her genre of music as modern Afro-soul and modern RNB, with groovy sounds. Faku personally loves music with feeling and meaning, as well as instruments that tell a story,in her music, she sings about everything she goes through, personal stuff and just issues that people can relate to. When we asked her about seeing her name or her music on pirated CDs, Faku says that she would have a mixture of emotions. She feels that it is important to approach people that don’t have access to facilities where they can legally download her music. It is important for her, that there is a connection with the people

 A full album is still a work in progress, but her latest single is called Ndi Khethe Wena, which means, ‘I chose you’. This song is a true love story and its celebrating love. She just loves to make music for the people and she is so thankful to the producers of her music for making it sound amazing.

You can follow Amanda Faku on her various social media platforms. On twitter and Instagram, she is @ami_faku and on Facebook you can follow her Ami Faku Music.

Producer: Zoë Setti

Presenter: Mkhusile Khusi Veto

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