Jazz poet starts reaping his fruits

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Emerging jazz poet, Lekgotla Daniel Kgotlayame, says he has started to enjoy the fruits of his labour in his music career. The former soccer player says that he discovered his poetic skill when playing for the national youth team.

However, he never thought his poetic gift would turn into an album one day. “After discovering poetry was a stronger passion, I started writing and reciting poems at school.  But I only thought of making out an album in 2004,” he says.  Kgotlayame had to endure a lengthy eight-year wait before releasing an album.

“I did not have enough material to make an album but I was strongly convinced it was the right step,” he says. He says leaving football was no big deal and his local hero is Benson Phuthego.

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