Mthandazo Gatya’s Amazing Story- From Tik Tok To Sharing The Stage With John Legend (VIDEO)

Mthandazo Gatya is not a household name just yet. But he is behind one of the biggest Afro-Soul songs which was released in 2021. The soulful musician is the vocalist behind the street hit single Senzeni, which led to a lot of confusion as he needed to reassert that he is the vocalist behind the song and not a woman as it was supposed.

My John Legend duet was a reintroduction, I’d be ungrateful if I said people have been sleeping on me, I dropped this song during lock down, became big but couldn’t promote it so people know the face, it’s on 2X Platinum because of them,grateful🙏🏿 #Loadshedding #eskom #stage6 pic.twitter.com/5hp1YDFR5n

— #JourneyToInfityEPOutNow (@MthandazoGatya) September 20, 2022

Having begun his music career in 2021, it comes as no surprise that he has not broken the ceiling to become a household name. But seemingly, he does have an avid following on social media as he went viral this week and topped it off by ending the week by materialising his dreams. This was all thanks to South African social media. Thereafter, Anele Mdoda and Black Coffee for intervening for the final surprise for Gatya.

Mthandazo Gatya goes viral

It all started earlier this week when Mthandazo Gatya took to Twitter to share his TikTok video doing the Open Verse Challenge to John Legend’s latest single Nervous. Gatya confirmed that after putting his own local twist to get the attention of the internationally recognised and Grammy winning musician, he managed to get John Legend’s attention and thanked his followers for their efforts to push his video.

Thank you all for make sure John Legend sees my duet, great news is that he loved it and replied, as to what will happen next, we can leave that to God, thank you from the bottom of my heart🙏🏿❤️ #eskom #loadshedding #Stage6 pic.twitter.com/8AwVVFBqBH

— #JourneyToInfityEPOutNow (@MthandazoGatya) September 18, 2022

Thinking that this would just be a celebratory moment. In another episode of Black Twitter working together to see a dream realised for a fellow South African. Tweeps took to the timeline to share the video again for John Legend to see it again and compliment the video.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/BVLWYVdHM0

— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 19, 2022

But it was not just John Legend that would go on the blue app to continue the virality of the video. Other ZAlebs like Mivhango’s Dingaan Mokebe also jumped on the challenge which only made Gatya trending even more.

So happy to see some of our public figures jump in to spread my duet even more, not only will this be a big moment for me should a collab happen but Africa as well, when BBC UK reached out to me, I realized what a moment this is for Africa🙏🏿 #Eskom #LoadsheddingUpdates pic.twitter.com/yTgL5wGjyD

— #JourneyToInfityEPOutNow (@MthandazoGatya) September 21, 2022

As the video continued to become viral, South African Twitter took to the timeline to call on prominent South African producers to collaborate with the talented and soulful musician. One of the first producer-DJs to assert their intentions to do just that was Black Coffee, a dream come true for Gatya. But Black Coffee did not just stop there.

Speak life into your words,When “Senzeni” blew up I always was asked during my TV & radio tour who do I wanna work with, I’d say @RealBlackCoffee & @sunelmusicianza ,fast forward i work with Sun-EL & then this comment from the big man“Let’s Go”😳 #Loadshedding #LoadsheddingStage5 pic.twitter.com/nxaX5mmsax

— #JourneyToInfityEPOutNow (@MthandazoGatya) September 20, 2022

Mthandazo Gatya shares the stage with John Legend

Anele Mdoda was the first to alert us that John Legend was in South Ah. A tweet which immediately got the attention of social media as they asserted that the All Of Me hitmaker must make time to actually collaborate with Gatya.

John Legend interview on #aneleandtheclubon947 after 7am. It’s so much fun pic.twitter.com/wWtjC60bQc

— Anele Mdoda (@Anele) September 19, 2022

John Legend is in SA 🥹

— Anele Mdoda (@Anele) September 23, 2022

Mdoda then confirmed that this actually happened. A fact which was asserted by Black Coffee thanking Legend for specifically coming to work with Gatya. It was this tweet, which led many to believe that Black Coffee was responsible for getting him to come to South Africa.

God Bless you Sir @johnlegend …..@MthandazoGatya 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

— Black Coffee (@RealBlackCoffee) September 24, 2022

In light of the news, tweeps then started sharing videos of Gatya on stage with John Legend giving a live rendition of the video which has ensured that he is on the right track to becoming the household name he deserves to be. And personally, we love to see all of it.

It happened guys !!! You did this for him !!!! Well done Southaaaa pic.twitter.com/Pra9MIRDva

— Anele Mdoda (@Anele) September 24, 2022