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Khaya Dlanga

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
466 total appearances

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What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

they're so joyous and then i got up and i joined them and i started singing and every single time and i felt this i almost i think i almost felt her presence my mother's presence and i felt like god's presence and i was like wow at that moment i was feeling so broken and weak and unable i was like wow, I know I can speak now. I know I can speak.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

they're so joyous and then i got up and i joined them and i started singing and every single time and i felt this i almost i think i almost felt her presence my mother's presence and i felt like god's presence and i was like wow at that moment i was feeling so broken and weak and unable i was like wow, I know I can speak now. I know I can speak.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And I got up and what, in fact, I didn't even make the speech that I'd prepared in my mind. I literally got up and sang. And which I would never do in public. And I urge anybody not to try to hear me singing in public. And I started singing. What did you sing? I sang, there's a song by, a very traditional Xhosa song that was made famous by also a Xhosa singer.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And I got up and what, in fact, I didn't even make the speech that I'd prepared in my mind. I literally got up and sang. And which I would never do in public. And I urge anybody not to try to hear me singing in public. And I started singing. What did you sing? I sang, there's a song by, a very traditional Xhosa song that was made famous by also a Xhosa singer.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And he's, which is like, this is my mother who has raised me. And then there's this big photo and I was holding this photo of her and singing this song. And then I just started speaking quite joyously about her. Very brief, very short. And then I was like, next week when I go back to Joburg, I'm going to church. And that was it. And that's when I started, that's why I started going to church.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

And he's, which is like, this is my mother who has raised me. And then there's this big photo and I was holding this photo of her and singing this song. And then I just started speaking quite joyously about her. Very brief, very short. And then I was like, next week when I go back to Joburg, I'm going to church. And that was it. And that's when I started, that's why I started going to church.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

So when had you stopped going to church? I stopped probably going to church maybe 2006. This is when you got a million subscribers on YouTube.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

So when had you stopped going to church? I stopped probably going to church maybe 2006. This is when you got a million subscribers on YouTube.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

Who needs God?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

Who needs God?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

In fact, that's how I first got into charge of Caesar, actually. YouTube. Wow. Yeah. I think we mailed each other. Wow, you slid into his DMs.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

In fact, that's how I first got into charge of Caesar, actually. YouTube. Wow. Yeah. I think we mailed each other. Wow, you slid into his DMs.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

Yeah.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

Yeah.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

It's a wild thing. She did mail me. But I mean, she was like 13.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

It's a wild thing. She did mail me. But I mean, she was like 13.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

um she sent me an email because obviously because she was watching my videos on youtube as a 13 year old and she knew us from south africa so she sent me an email she said hi my name is amala zandi lejamini and my father is dumisani he's this famous actor in south africa he was in sarafina i'm trying to get hold i've never met him wow when i get hold of him

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

um she sent me an email because obviously because she was watching my videos on youtube as a 13 year old and she knew us from south africa so she sent me an email she said hi my name is amala zandi lejamini and my father is dumisani he's this famous actor in south africa he was in sarafina i'm trying to get hold i've never met him wow when i get hold of him

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

and would you find a way to get me in touch with him? And I felt so blessed My heart, like, I was like, she's 13. She's like a child.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Khaya Dlanga โ€“ One of My Favorite People

and would you find a way to get me in touch with him? And I felt so blessed My heart, like, I was like, she's 13. She's like a child.