Portable stumbled on fame by chance when a blogger, Don Blue, used ‘Zazu Zeh’ as a soundtrack on a post which eventually piqued the famous Nigerian singer Olamide’s interest. The Ogun State-born rapper grew up in Abeokuta with his family before moving to Sango-Ota, a city in Ogun state but close to Lagos State.
Portable’s journey to fame is typically a grass to grace story. Many Nigerians argued that Portable is a better performer with lots of energy on stage. Fans on Twitter compared the fast-rising artiste with veteran Nigerian rapper Terry G. He is loved for his energetic performances at shows. Many of his fans enjoy his stage performances, antics and controversies more than his songs aside from ‘Zazu Zeh’, Portable has released other songs, but it remains unrivalled. The leader of the Zen nation movement has made a joke of Naira Marley‘s Marlian movement from 2020. Although he later apologised to both of them, he still throws subliminal shades at them on social media and stage. Portable cursed Pocolee and his show promoter for ripping him off. He courted his first career controversy within the first month of breaking into the Nigerian music industry. Little wonder, Portable felt the song was deserving of a Grammy award.Ī few days after the song’s release, Portable shot into the limelight, allowing him to share a stage with Tiwa savage at the Livespot X concert on Friday, December 17. Since its release on December 14, 2021, the song ‘Zazu Zeh’ has amassed 6.6 million views on YouTube and is one of the most played songs on Spotify, an online audio streaming platform.
The 27-year-old Sango Ota-based singer stumbled into fame with the release of his hit song, Zazu Zeh, which gradually won the heart of fans and quickly grew into fans’ favourite song. Around 28 million people speak Zulu as either an L1 or L2 language.Īll of the songs of The Lion King are memorable and the Circle of Life is no exception.Like him or hate him, Portable remains one of the fastest-growing Nigerian singers in the last five months.īefore December 2021, fans knew little or nothing about Habeeb Okikiola, now famous as Portable. It follows then that Zulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, with 24 percent of the population speaking it at home and more than half the population able to understand it. Zulu is the native language to South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatani, and an official language for South Africa.
Zulu, also known as isiZulu to distinguish between the language and the people, is a Southern Bantu language belonging to the Niger-Congo language family like Swahili. In fact, all of the names in The Lion King have origins in Swahili everyone from Rafiki ( friend) to Zazu ( movement)! And our teachers of the meaning of hakuna matada need a mention here too: Timon means respect, while Pumbaa means slow-witted. Did you know you were speaking Swahili when you were singing along? What about your favourite characters? Simba means lion, Nala means gift, and Mufasa means king. The Lion King taught us what hakuna matada means, which is no worries if you’ve forgotten. There are around 16 million people who speak Swahili as a first language and almost 100 million as a second. If you are visiting Africa you are most likely to hear Swahili in the following places: Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. Swahili is considered a lingua franca in the African Great Lakes region of Africa as well as other parts of the continent to the south and east. Swahili, also known as Kiswahili to differentiate between the language and people of Swahili, is a Bantu language that belongs to the Niger-Congo language family.
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