Bok van Blerk’s 2006 hit “De La Rey” - a plea to a long-dead Boer War general to come back and lead his people - polarized the Afrikaans community with its nationalist undertones. It really made heads turn because of the song he chose to sing. It wasn’t only remarkable because Refentse - who speaks Sesotho at home - was singing in perfect, unaccented Afrikaans, the language once associated with apartheid. “Even if they can’t always pronounce his name.”īut getting back to that viral video. “The Afrikaans public adore him,” says author, journalist and music critic Erns Grundling. After signing with Select Musiek (a division of Sony) he won four Ghoema awards (Afrikaans Grammys) for his first album My Hart Bly in ’ n Taal (My Heart Lives in a Language) which was the biggest-selling South African album of 2017, in any language. Now at almost 22, Refentse has established himself as one of the biggest music stars in South Africa.
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