Lungelo Manzi is versatile singer, rapper and composer who built his style on emotive storytelling and alternative interpretations of hip-hop drum loops and melodic synthesizers and pads. Mental health is a major theme that informs the music created from the perspective of a young, black man finding his way in South Africa. The challenges, victories and sweet somethings in between flesh out what is a versatile sound created by the independent artist.

Since 2012, Lungelo Manzi has developed as a writer and creative through poetry, being a part of musical groups while pursuing his studies in film and media in Cape Town. He returned home to Durban in 2016 as a dropout, diagnosed with depression, to chase the dream of being a full-time musician – creating his debut EP “Black Dog” in partnership with Wandile Ngidi of Cultured Chaos Entertainment. In 2017, Lungelo Manzi was a contributor to Slikour On Life’s Incubator Compilation Album, which was nominated at the 2018 SA Hip Hop Awards. He has since appeared on a number of television and radio shows such as MTV Base Cyphers (2017), Mzansi Insider, The Fresh Breakfast Show & Massiv Metro to mention a few. Black Dog 2 was released in April 2019 and Black Dog 3 was released on 30 Oct 2020. The final chapter in this EP series, has MJ Summers as the only featured artist. It also include production credits from KayTorture, Giyani Shangase, Dave Audinary, Jaedon Daniel, Ndabezimnandi, Byron T & AudioSimz.