A South African artist has achieved success on Chinese reality TV.
Motswedi Modiba was a South African vocalist with prospects of a future career in her own nation a fortnight ago. She impressed millions with her performance in Mandarin, and now she’s a breakout success on one of China’s biggest reality TV shows.

When Modiba perform Karen Mok’s ballad “Love,” the judges were blown away. Modiba was reputedly the first Black and African contestant on “Sing! China.”

The eighth-season competition has a similar structure to “The Voice” in the US, with the first round being judge secretly. Modiba had to choose a mentor for the competition’s later rounds after two of the four judges chose her to move on to the next round (she decided on singer, rapper, and actor Wilber Pan).

The performer became viral on Chinese social media. Music blogger Radio Utopia asked their 11.8 million Weibo followers, “How could Motswedi sing so well?” Meanwhile, the hashtag “I cannot compete with Motswedi” trended in response to a statement made by competition judge Joker Xue.

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Not bad considering that was just a joke on TikTok.

The 26-year-old, who was born in Tshwane, South Africa, told CNN that her parents enrolled her in the Pretoria Chinese School, where she studied Mandarin from the age of six to 18. “They wanted to provide us the best prospects in the world because they observed global trends and believed that China will likely become a significant economic participant in the globe. life,” she said.

Modiba claims to have received a scholarship to study Chinese language and literature at Yunnan Normal University in Kunming, China, after competing in the national category of the Chinese Bridge Competition while still in high school.

She had contributed to the recording of Tebs David’s gospel song “Baba Wethu” as a young child, and while attending university in China, she competed in small-scale Mandarin singing competitions. She began her career in South Africa as MOE in 2022 with the track “It Was A Vibe,” for which she nominate for a Metro FM Music Award.

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