‘Temporary’ move overseas for Zahara

MULTI-award-winning singer Bulelwa Mkutukana‚ known as Zahara, plans to move overseas temporarily to attract a brand new audience with her music.

She believes Africa no longer appreciates her talent‚ which has left her frustrated.

The singer said she was tired of hogging headlines for her private life and the negativity which followed.

She plans to move to America next year to promote her upcoming album and record music. “I have taken my music across Africa and I have won many awards.

“I have done everything I could here and now people have started to tear me apart.”

Zahara said she was done with trying to impress people and would rather be in a place where she was appreciated for her music.

“I am now done with Africa and trying to impress everyone. It is time for Africa and South Africa to let me go and let me take my music to places where it can be appreciated. “I love this country and what it has done for me, but my talent needs to be heard‚” she said.

The musician‚ who shot to fame with her 2011 double-platinum selling debut album Loliwe‚ said she had turned down a chance to emigrate in 2013 because being proudly African was close to her heart.

The star, 28, is wrapping up production on her new album Mgodi‚ and recently recorded two tracks for the album with Grammy-award winning jazz musician Kirk Whalum.