Monde Msutwana | Idols South Africa

Age: 30

Hometown: Witbank

Occupation: Marketing Assistant and Radio Presenter

Monde started singing at an early age, around age six or seven, he says, “but only I took it seriously after I passed my Grade 12 and didn’t know what to study, and so I went to a music school.”

But he also studied Communications Management and got a job as a Marketing Assistant at a record company, to learn the music business from the inside, and he also moonlights as a standby presenter at Radio Platinum.

Monde says that when he has spare time, he tends to sleep it away because of his busy schedule.

Monde lists some of his musical heroes as Bobby McFerrin, Anthony Hamilton, R Kelly, Kenny “Babyface” Edmunds and Quincy Jones – “in an encompassing way, all athletes who strive to do their best in everything they do,” he says.