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LadyDu on being an independent artist and owning her music

South African music star Lady Du has risen up the ranks of amapiano music and has the illustrious awards to show for her talents.

She has been fortunate enough to walk away with multiple awards throughout her career and her growing fame has led to many global recognition and concerts.

She took to her Instagram timeline and paid tribute to herself for her career achievements and showed fans a glimpse of her “Wall of Fame”, where he awards and accomplishments are plastered over the walls of her house. She revealed that she has won seven platinum awards.

“Since I don’t play music in my house the only way one will know what I do is by walking my wall of fame.  have more plaques to put up as I’m afraid of heights but, I have never posted my achievements in music. I have more than 7 platinum plaques.”

 

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She also said that she has worked hard to record her own songs and she’s trusted herself to produce the songs.

“Let me explain something that has been a misconception, I’ve recorded sooo many songs that I own but because I never had a distributor, I trusted I decided to play chess, I’d drop songs with people but ask to own the master and have majority percentages that way i still made money but didn’t have to pay for it,” she added.

She also gave credit to some of the artists she’s worked with including Cassper Nyovest, Murdah Bongz, DBN Gogo, among many others.

Compiled by Matthew Petersen

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