MATT CPT meets Morning Cruise

MAtt CPT aka Matther Sylvester

Starting off the interview with the young talented male rappers songs titled "illuminate",grew up in a place called Retreat, currently aged 21.

Matthew calls himself an "average old Joe" who was surrounded by poverty and gangster ism from a young age and basically all those elements play a huge role in his lyrics that he puts in his music. His musical background started when his dad was a DJ in all the old clubs in Cape Town and his fathr played a big role in choosing music as a passion for life.

Matt feels his not where he supposed to be with his music but his music gets played by a lot of his fans, especially the new EP he dropped titled "Identification" where his painting a picture of his life where his identifying himself as an artist in this industry. Since he released Illuminate the music video got 7k views and is still blowing up.

He grew into the the artist he sees himself as he gets to work with some amazing people, always setting up some great meetings wit h great people in the industry. He realized he had to put his own foot in the music industry door to get recognized.

Speaking about the Hip Hop scene in Cape Town, he mentions The Breakfast Rush and how Yuzriq Meyer is doing good by  uplifting Cape Townians in the AM which is making a big imapct as eve ryone is trying to get there fair share and Youngsta Cpt gave a platform for some artists in Cape Town, he was initially the voice to say "Hey Cape Town has talent." he adds in Cape Town we are getting there, with so much talent all we need to do is stand together and bring the industry here.

Mathhew is studying sound engineering at the moment because when he steps into the studio he wouild like to have an idea of what his producer and sound engineer is doing with his  music. He feels the sound engineering will benefit him in so much ways, to get something behind his name.

one of the people he would like to collab with is J.Cole , Matthew explains his a lyrical Genius.

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Getting Musically educated with Astryd Brown

Astryd Brown is a singer, songwriter and recording artist from Eldorado Park, Soweto.

Kicking off the interview with one of her songs titled Four feat Yung Swiss she explains the song is really a club anthem, to turn up to and have fun too. The song is just basically saying why should you have one when you can have four,  all about having fun and breaking all boundaries.

Astryd Brown

Astryd was introduced to music at a really young age, just being at home with family listening to music which inspired her to sing from then. In High School she took her music more serious, where she learnt a lot from her friend who was a vocalist. They initially started making music together, started singing in malls and basically busking anywhere.

She has big musical influences namely from her childhood Aaliyah, Mariah Carey and Destiny's Child and for the new school influences it would be Tinashe, Beyonce and so many more but mainly RnB has inspired her to pursue music.

her music career blossomed after Yung Swiss's EP was released in the end of 2016. she was featured on 2 songs of his EP. One song titled "Addicted" was really really big she explains this is how she entered into the Hip Hop scene.And the Hip Hop scene recognized her for being on Yung Swiss's EP. She then dropped a song with Rouge the Rapper and people started noticing who this female is with this voice. Since "Four" was dropped, a bigger market has noticed Astryd.


Astryd biggest challenge as a song writer,  is having writers/artist block, where nothing comes to mind. and second to the biggest challenge is being un-inspired to do music. Astryd explans the main source of income for artists are gigs and performances,since her main focus is just making music, 100% music.

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Facebook           Astryd Brown Music
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Lea Heart local Artist from Bellville

LEA HEART

Lea Heart is from the Mother City, like she says “United States of Bellville”… Lea always knew she was supposed to be a singer, from a young age had vocal training, did a few road shows and a courageous music teacher putting her on the stage encouraging her to show people her talent   as she adds to that she was quite a show off from the get go! Only a few years back she started doing original tracks all thanks’ to her producer and partner Jodi Ova aka JAXEE.

Lea is an independent artist that is not closed off to being signed, she believes she’s happy where she is and having control over what music she puts out into the world; what she decides to record and what she decides to be on. She’s open to being signed if the opportunity arises and she gets a good feeling about it.

When asked if she’s getting paid for her music she answered of cause but everything belongs to Jaxee Entertainment, keeping it in the family right now.

Her music has definitely advanced since she was young, she says you need to grow, her music and vocally has definitely grown. She says you need to learn as you go along You need to find your niche, your voice, and most importantly tone of voice you’d like to put out there because people will recognise you because of your voice.

Her new single Look at me, was described as beautiful. As she explains she just came into studio and the song was given to her. Jaxee, Jodi Ova her producer, explains the song was written for a popular artist and due to communication skills it did not happen. And because Lea did the Demo song, the song was fire. Lea Heart made this song her own.

Lea has a job, an amount of hours during the day that puts  food on the table, she says when she’s ready she will pursue her music career full time. Lea does not believe you need a back-up plan, because she will never have that doubt in her mind that she is not going to succeed. You have to believe that you will succeed therefore the step s you take will move you forward towards that point, because in this business you will have disappointments and no’s and you can turn those no’s in to yes’s and once you get to that point a whole new world is going to open up for you.

Lea Heart would love to collaborate with Neyo, because his amazing, he does hard work and he does close off himself to a certain genre.

Jasmine Mazwi, Lea Heart and Mkhuseli Khusi Veto 

For now Lea heart is just pushing singles creating awareness for her brand, will be performing at Rocking the Daisies.

Lea Hearts message to aspiring artists is don’t give up, sometimes you have to have a tunnel vision when it comes to where you want to be because all the distractions will derail you

How to get hold of Lea Heart

@lea_heart_private

@lea_heart_music

Soundcloud

Itunes

A  very big thank you to the beautiful Lea Heart @leaheartprivate and her talented producer @jaxeemusic for joining us on #morningcruise on #bushradio, debuting her new single titled "Look at me".


Presenters & Producers
Mkhuseli "Khusi" Veto & Jasmine Mazwi