Female rapper, MOYA set to tour the US and UK with Lauryn Hill, YG Marley, The Fugees, and D.I.O.
South African rapper, currently based in Los Angeles, Nomoya Refiloe Dube, known professionally as MOYA, is flying the South African flag high as she launches her rap career in the US with award-winning names Lauryn Hill, YG Marley, and D.I.O.
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The Mpumalanga rapper with Limpopo roots will make her big rap debut at the MHL & THE FUGEES Tour this August. The tour will kickstart on Women’s Day, 9 August in Florida, then Atlanta, and Charlotte, and will travel until 22 October, closing off in Paris, London, Paris and Amsterdam. She has not yet released her debut single in South Africa, but already she is a topic of discussion and touring the US. Her debut single Big Boy Gun is set to be released this Women’s Month.
MOYA was introduced to the South African industry as an actress when she scooped a small cameo role of a slay queen on the Showmax Original Lingashoni, then bagged another role on The Queen and The River and the Mzansi Magic film, Vuthela. Since then, she has been working diligently on her music behind the scenes after being discovered in 2023 by Asanda Empires, a record label based in the US. She has been working on her music due for release this August.
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“She is very different amongst all the female artists currently out. She has an identity that is going to catapult her peak. Her being from South Africa, her style is genuine, natural ability to get in the studio and start writing is incredible. Her energy is not forced and she is genuinely authentic and appeals to everyone across the world, the US and UK,” Head of 50/50 Global Musik SONY. “I am so excited. I have envisioned this. I have dreamt about it and saw myself as an international star, so this is a manifestation of my dreams. I can’t wait to meet Lauryn Hill, she has been an inspiration to many women in the Hip-Hop business,” MOYA says.
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