#MusicExchange: Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse | Biz Community 22 May 2018

BY: MARTIN MYERS Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse is fondly known as the ‘Legend’ and his boundless work energy show no signs of slowing down. Last weekend, he and his band played the Azgo Festival in Maputo and this weekend he appears at the Zakifo Festival in Durban, then the Bassline Festival at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg…

Sipho Mabuse VS Strange Loving – Burnout

Sipho Hotstix Mabuse VS Strange Loving – BURNOUT STRANGE LOVING Revives Popular Gallo Classic! STRANGE LOVING and Gallo Record Company have released a brand new single – a rework of Sipho Hotstix Mabuse’s classic ‘Burnout’ which became one of the first major crossover hits in South Africa in the early 1980s, selling more than 500 000 copies. A spur…

SIPHO “HOTSTIX” MABUSE ENTERS THE WISDOM ECONOMY | Sawubona, May 2017

by Struan Douglas, from Sawubona Magazine In 1985, a hot new single was pumping in most clubs, house parties and cars. Whenever Burn Out played, people would stomp to the dance floor. Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse became known as the hottest musician in South Africa. The music, which fused township pop, traditional mbaqanga groove and the disco of the era,…