| Zikode spoke to the Guardian a month after the release of her solo album, Xola Moya Wam, on which the title track has gone platinum in South Africa | She says that last year, when Master KG called late one evening to ask her to come to his studio in Midrand immediately to listen to beats he had just written, she was close to giving up on her dreams of becoming a solo artist |
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| In September Jerusalema became the most Shazammed song in history | Nomcebo left and Master KG - Jerusalema Photograph: Courtesy Master KG Zikode listened to the track two or three times before the first words came to her |
It has been streamed almost 55m times on Spotify, where MasterKG has amassed 9m monthly listeners.
21| It has been embraced from PNG to Palestine, Canada to Curacao — where fans have attempted the jerusalemadancechallenge, | Dressed in red and blue habits, they move around the monastery and picturesque grounds of St Alphonsus in Drumcondra, to music |
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| It was also performed by | Fenómenos do Semba, a group in Angola, south-west Africa, filmed themselves dancing to the gospel-influenced song, written by South African record producer Master KG and vocalised by Nomcebo, while eating and without dropping their plates |
For now, she sometimes performs it for fans over Skype or Whatsapp.
3| Since posting the challenge, the sisters say they have been inundated with emails from people around the world enjoying their moves | Sister Gabrielle Fox said she did not mind taking part in the challenge because she saw it as a creative way to pray |
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| In a year where gatherings with family and friends of the sort shown in Angola have been a rare privilege, the track seems to have taken on a special significance around the world |
A tányér azért, mert az eredeti koreográfia Februárból való.