The Set out journey of Moshe Matseke

                   

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oshe Matseke is a lover of music, God, Art and deeply interested in people. He’s intrigued by the way people talk, handle themselves and strongly believes that through music, all this can be experienced. He can express himself to people through his love and passion for music. He also believes that music is a tool which can be used to deliver messages that people cannot address.

Moshe Matseke is a musician, a percussionist, singer and a speaker.  He has been in the music industry for about 8 years and has been playing and talking professional platforms for 4 years.  Matseke has been a speaker in the South African State theatre, Mzansi festival, Annual South African theatre awards, University of Johannesburg, Lesedi foundation amongst others. Moshe started singing in high school then sang with at church and later began his journey with the Finger Print 5 and the AmaSoulja bands. He also sings for the Tshwane choir.

He is a percussionist for DJ Fresh and Lamiez. He sings and plays drums for the Tshwane Gospel Choir. He has been with them for 2 years now. He is currently in Botswana with the choir for the UCCSA 50^th celebration. He is a drummer and composer for Finger Print and has been with them for 3 years.

They have released an EP called Innocence and they are currently working on an album. He is also a part of a 6 piece male band called AmaSoulja live band. They play at weddings, graduations and parties. They have recorded 3 singles that will release one after the other beginning December. 

The deep is a worship group, dedicated to uplifting worshipers all around the country. They go around churches doing worship nights and inspiring young people to worship God and enjoy their youth in the Lord.

He is a busy man but he makes every single minute of his life count. Life is not fair but we all get 7 days per week, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. Besides singing, Matseke learns guitar, does a bit of theatre work and photography. On normal weekly basis he’d have theatre class in the morning from 9-12 and then music rehearsal from 12 till 5pm.

Moshe shows his courtesy by being involved in certain community projects. He works with NGOs namely: Grootbras, Nelmaphius youth forum and Lesedi Foundation. He assists them with motivational speaking, career advice and life coaching when they have events.

Every journey has its challenges and those challenges are what determine the destiny of our point of arrival. Just like any other successful individual, Matseke has had his challenges but that did not discourage his from achieving what he desired. He still faces challenges like fraud. Promises and contracts bridged, lies, bad attitude from other musicians on stage, sabotage, for an example, his microphone would be intentionally muted during the show or the main instrument will be turned down on his monitor.

In 2014, just after he graduated as an audio technician from Damelin, he started work at the South African State Theatre. One afternoon on a Tuesday, he was home after running errands, he came home to an uncertain feeling. Took a young nap and his mom came to his room to wake him to go check on his brother.

As he did, he found his brother hung himself in one of the pillars with a rope. He left no note and he had been the one person who he spoke to about his life and how he thinks he hasn’t made anyone proud. He had to be strong for his family so he didn’t really get a chance to grieve.

Year 2016, he fell in love with a girl; they were 3months into relationship when she came to watch him rehearse one night because they hadn’t seen each other in 2 weeks due to work and travelling. On the same night they got coffee and used public transport to get home. They stayed on both far ends of Mamelodi, so at some point they had to separate and take different taxis to get home, as they did, he said his goodbyes and that was the last time he saw her.

She was found at a dump side the next morning, naked, raped, bruised and struggle with a wire on her throat. He was the last one known to have been with her so all arrows pointed to him. The family blamed him for her death; he wasn’t even allowed to be at the funeral.

He went through a series on investigations and was the number one suspect for a while.

Tests were made and they realized that his DNA did not match the semen found in her body. For some time he gave in on ever living or loving again but music restored his life. He almost lost it. He even thought of committing suicide but God and music restored his life.

Matseke was born and raised in Mamelodi. He was born on the 14 of May in 1992. He went to Emasangweni Primary school and matricuted in Kgatang secondary school. He then went to Damelin collage in Manlin and studied sound engineering. Matseke’s childhood was good. Both parents were present in his life. He had four siblings, 2 passed on and he now has two left, a brother and a sister.

In the next 10 years Matseke hopes that he will be a well-established brand, help produce a few albums by other musicians. For those who want to pursue the musical career, Moshe’s last words are “Appreciate life. Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your ability. It is not about where or how you start but the important mark is that you can start. Nothing can stop a man with a vision, even if it takes long. Hold on.”