Hip Hop wordmaster Zubz is working on the much anticipated follow up to his SAMA nominated masterpiece Listeners Digest, but his work has been interrupted by some exciting opportunities to perform in Scandinavia.

The man behind hits such as ‘Handiende’, ‘I Write’ and ‘Superstar’ is amped about his trips: "I’m going to Oslo in Norway in June and then in July I’ll be performing in Finland…I’m excited because it’s a new market for people who havent heard my stuff, its new energies, new people I’m going to meet, it’s a new frontier, so it’s exciting. I’m hoping to collaborate with as many people as I can and get new energies and inspiration."

Thabo Mooketsi is responsible for taking Zubz to Norway In June , he outlines the event: Off The Hook Production CC in partnership with Afrikan History Week (AHW) and Soweto Arts Festival are hosting the Street Prophets exchange programme from 8-18 June 2006, The Street Prophets project is an exchange programme between South Afrikan artists and Norway; the aim of the exchange is to take artists from both South Afrika and Norway to impart their skills, collaborate and with each other. Zubz and Rainbow will be the ambassadors for South-Afrikan hip-hop during the AHW in Norway. The artist will participate in workshop, collaboration and perform at Street Prophets concert on 16 June 2006 with hip -hop artists in Oslo. The exchange programme takes place during an
important month of June 16, and commemorating the 30 years of 1976 up raising in South Afrika. The Street Prophets exchange will be followed by another exchange schedule to take place on 7-17 December 2006 where artists from Norway will visit South Afrika through the Soweto Arts Festival.The Street Prophets project is funded by MINNO (South African Norwegian Education and Music programme) based on these themes: Workshop/collaboration/performance."

Joonas Kervinen in Finland booked Zubz for a developmental educational project called Young Africa 2006, "The information project
aimed to pass on information of South Africa’s situation and of how people are working on the grass-root level to battle problems. Zubz will be performing at Faces Etnofestival (during the 28th and 30th of July, 2006) and different other events (t.b.a.) in Finland during the end of July/the beginning of August.

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