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Zakes Bantwini featured on EA FC24 soundtrack

Grammy award-winning musician Zakes Bantwini is one of many artists who has been featured on EA Sports’ FC24 soundtrack.

A division of Electronic Arts (EA), EA Sports develops and publishes video games. Popular games include all the FIFA games as well as basketball, golf and UFC games.

Taking to Instagram to announce the news, Zakes shared, “What an honour… Osama [by both Zakes and Kasango] made it onto the soundtrack for EA Sports FC 24! ⚽️.”

 

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Other local artists who have also been featured on the soundtrack include the Major League DJz and the late Brenda Fassie for their song Mamgobhozi, a remake of Brenda’s Vuli Ndlela.

International artists include Kendrick Lamar, Jack Harlow, J. Cole, and Stormzy to name a few.

 

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Zakes is currently counting down the days until his Abantu show which is set to take place at the DHL stadium in Cape Town on 28 October.

For the past two months, the musician has performed at many local universities, calling it the Abantu Campus Activation, ending the campus performances at Rhodes University on Monday, 25 September.

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