Manu WorldStar shares inspiration behind ‘Sheke’
He has been teasing his fans with snippets of his new single Sheke on social media and musician Manu WorldStar says he’s ready to satisfy the music cravings his fans have been knocking at his door for.
After blowing the music scene out of the water with his hit, Nalingi, Manu disappeared.
“While to the public it seems like I’ve been on a twoyear break, to me it was a restructuring phase.
“I opened up my record label and at the same time I was working on my music, so now I feel like I’m at point where I’m ready to come out again.”
Speaking to TshisaLIVE, the artist explained the music hiatus, saying he felt stagnant and needed a change of direction.
“I wanted to feel excited about the music again, so I felt like I needed to grow from my previous situation.
“They (his previous record label) understood that I had different plans for myself and so we came to an agreement and I was able to do a complete restructure.
“By that I mean register my company.
“I just wanted to make sure I had the right partners all round before I made a move.
“That took me about two years to put together.
“A lot of emotions were brought out of me in these past two years.
“It was a lot of tough and exciting times and frustration but throughout all of that the music never suffered.”
He told TshisaLIVE the song, set to be released on June 15, is a classic Manu WorldStar track.
“The idea around the song was you having a moment of bliss on the dance floor with your partner.
“So I pictured an African couple shaking their hips to this rhythm.
“That’s where it took me when I heard the beat by my producer.
“I really translated how I felt on the song and it just reminded me of the African nights, when you go out and hear Afro-beats and choko music from the DRC and all this richness and culture and people shaking their hips, and that’ sa big thing in the Congolese culture and in SA.
“Sheke is an embodiment of the African culture.
“I’ve worked on a lot of music and explored a lot of sounds and my approach is a little different, but it will make you still feel the same.
“My music is warm, loving and it brings people together.
“It’s a body of music that brings different types of cultures together and that’s who I am.
“I’m an embodiment of different cultures,” he said.
Sheke is a single fans will find on Manu’s EP, Warm Fuzzy Bridge.
“The name is inspired by the phrase warm fuzzy feeling, I changed it to bridge because I believe my music is a bridge that connects different cultures. “It is a solo project.
“I feel like I owe it to my fans and to myself.
“My solo records are my biggest so I’m not afraid to release a solo project.
“The features on this project are my producers and I’m releasing two EPs this year and an album next year,” he said.