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Dee Koala reaches 1 million streams on Apple Music

Award-winning rapper Dee Koala achieved a huge milestone in her career after reaching 1 million streams on Apple Music.

The Cape Town-based artist, who is set to join Cassper Nyovest and Nasty C on their African Throne World Tour for their Cape Town and Johannesburg shows, took to X to share the news.

Referring to her album 4 The Khaltsha, Dee, whose real name is Odwa Situma, wrote, “With one album (2019) and 3 singles dropped, over 1 million streams on @AppleMusic.”

The Anazinto hitmaker received much love and support from her fans.

Dee is also getting ready to set the stage alight at her third annual 4 The Khaltsha concert in her hometown on 29 and 30 September. In her latest update about the show, Dee shared that the popular athletic apparel company Adidas will be the official brand partner.

“For our 3rd annual festival, it was only right to partner with the brand with the 3 stripes ?.”

 

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Dee has been the brand ambassador for Adidas for the past five years. “The relationship with me and Adi [Adidas] is just home, man. They like me for me. What drew them to me was when I did my first capsule and I was dressed in Adi and they just dig my energy, the person beside the music,” she said while appearing on SlikourOnLife.

Also see: A-Reece frustrated after discovering unauthorised access to Apple Music account

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