LUVO ZOLA SPAMBO

Luvo Zola Spambo (Luvs) born 3 February 1992, in Butterworth and raised in East London, is a gifted and versatile Xhosa Vocalist whose first love is music.

Her interest in the arts began at a very young age when she noticed she was able to pick up foreign accents and mimic the characters of popular tv shows. She soon discovered her voice in this manner too, and so began rehearsing popular music. Her love for writing developed at 18 after realising that her experiences were worth documenting in a way that she felt most comfortable and passionate about. She completed her Bachelor of Commerce (Majoring in Marketing Management) at the University of Pretoria and did her internship at Samsung after graduating.

She met Sakhumzi Ndeleni (Leave A Mark) through a mutual friend who played a voice note of her singing and once he heard that, played it to Khanyisa (Leave A Mark).The two producer/song writers invited her to the studio and they started producing songs together. Luvs hopes to be one of South Africa’s female leading producers in music, an ambassador for South African art and a teacher of the arts once she’s honed her skills. Luvo is also a model and in Feb 2019 became one of the faces of the MTN Double your bundle campaign.

SAKHUMZI NDELENI

Sakhumzi Ndeleni (Ref) born September 7th 1990, in the Eastern Cape in qamakwe. He was introduced to music at the tender age of 6 years old by his late mother who was a teacher and a choir conductor.

He later then fell involve with pop music through his father who would constantly play Algoa FM while they traveled from East London to Idutywa. He permantly moved to East London in 1996 and attended Aqua Vista Primary where he joined the choir, singing with his sister and entering singing competions. He later left Aqua Vista primary and his mother enrolled him at Voorpos Primary where a friend introduced him to Hip Hop by giving him a pirated copy of the Eminem Show and thats when he stopped singing and started writing his own rap songs.

He met up with Khanyisa Bengeza (Leave A Mark member) at a common friend’s studio and thats when they started producing their own music with 5 other artists going by the name (LPA). The group started gaining popularity in the underground hip hop circles of East London, which led up to them teaming up with a local hip hop Artist from Kwazulu Natal Kuss Diverse and they formed U-Diverse Entertainment. U-Diverse Entertainment hosted a production at The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown where they got to share the stage with likes of the Soil, Black sunshine and South African Jazz icon Louis Mhlanga and they were 19 years old at the time(2010). U-Diverse Entertainment despended late 2011 and Khanyisa and Sakhumzi formed Leave A Mark with child hood friends Sozizwe Maqoma, Anga Awonke Hackula and Luvo Zola Spambo.

They Registered yet another musical Production at The National Arts Festival in 2012 and shared the stage with likes of Etc crew, The Muffinz and ewock (Former DBN Battle of the Elements Organiser). Sakhumzi left East London to go study Sound engineering at Creative Arts College in Durban where he started working on music with Toya Delazy and music producer Markus Els. He then graduated from CAC top of his class and left for Cape Town to pursue a degree in Sound Production.

He started working with Phinda Bosha and Taphiwa Mtawuri Zimbabwean Artists and producers. He graduated from SAE, then left to pursue his music career with Leave A Mark in Johannesburg.

KHANYISA PHIKOLOMZI BENGEZA

Khanyisa Phikolomzi Bengeza born 19 June 1990, Born in Cape Town raised in Mthatha till the age of 9 where he moved to East London. He got involved with music when he was 12 years old in church and playing the trumpet in school.

At this age he was already sneaking out every thursday night for poetry sessions and having is mother called at school for constantly writting songs and poetry in class. In 2007 at the age of 17 he had a poem of his published by The Poetry Institute of Africa. This was the very year He met Sakhumzi a co-member of Leave A Mark and started a rap group called L.P.A .

By 2010 He, Sakhumzi and a childhood friend had started an entertainment and events company and took over 20 teenage artists to the Grahamstown National Arts Festival for a production which included original music. At the age of 26 though he had not yet found commercial success he had already shared stages with the likes of Zahara, performance with Jaziel Brothers and was working with LAM and Amanda Black amongst others.