10 Things You Didn’t Know About Toya Delazy

Toya Delazy blew up in 2011 and she stood out with her style of pop music. She embodies all things cool; she is young, fresh and funky with her trademark of thick-rimmed glasses, braided Mohawk and her fashion style which she called “street classic and vintage”. Her album “Due Drop” has been doing well, circulating on Radio charts and getting nominations for Awards. Toya is an example of young person who knows what she wants and knows how to get it. Here is the list of things you didn’t know about her.
1. Toya Delazy’s real name is Latoya Buthelezi
2. Toya is Zulu Royalty, she’s a granddaughter of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi
3. She started playing classical piano at the age of nine
4. She was in matric when her mother passed way
5. She describe her sound as a lucky packet, as her music is a fusion of various genres like Jazz, Electro Hop and Pop( which she calls JEHP)

6. Artists such as Lauryn Hill, Kate Nash, John Legend, Radiohead, Tracy Chapman, Goldfish, Adele, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Black Eyed Peas and Nirvana just to mention a few have influenced to her.
7. She is an ambassador for Reebok
8. Her debut single “Pump it on” is currently sitting on 204,096 YouTube hits from her album titled “Due Drop” which was released in October, 2011
9. She was nominated for Best Top 5 Produced Album, Best Top 5 Female

Album, Best Top 5 Newcomer and Best Top 5 Styled Artist/Group at the METRO FM Awards 2013
10. Now she is nominated for Newcomer of the Year, Best Pop Album, Record of the Year (for the song Love is in the Air), Best Producer with Jax Panik and twice for Remix of the Year, one each with Pascal & Pearce and ClassyMenace.