Juggling talents no problem for this star

TSHWANE-BASED photographer, sound engineer, radio presenter and musician Bruce Musekwa, 22, popularly known as Grèy Galxy in his art circles, has recently dropped a single titled u’mapakisha.

The multi-talented artist said the amapiano single was available in all online platforms from Wednesday.

“I call this sound ‘Trap Music’. It is Afro sounds of all sorts, and my very recent release is an amapiano song u’mapakisha. Just to give you a heads up, my team and I are working on a new sound that’s going to blow away both the young and old,” said Musekwa.

Pretoria born and bred, and despite juggling all his other talents, Musekwa said growing up he always knew that music was his first love.

Grèy Galxy started making music at the age of 12, recording his first song at only 13. After matric he studied sound engineering, completing his N6 at Southwest Media College.

However, like with many artists, Covid-19 took a toll.

“The cororavirus pandemic really disturbed all my careers, like everyone else, photography and radio presenting included. ”

On what inspired his stage name, Grèy Galxy, he said: “Art did that for me. The name is a combination of colours and constellations; this reflects the different genres that I make, because South Africa is a multilingual country, so why make music for a certain group of people when you can make it for the whole of South Africa. Merging the languages makes listeners of all ethnic groups, and cultures relate to what I am saying.”

He expects a bright future post Covid.

“For now, expect a lot of influence in my music from Baggy Records, Team Torq and Queen A Studio.”