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The story behind Master KG's 'Jerusalema,' one of the most Shazamed songs in the world

  • Writer: Michelle Cohan
    Michelle Cohan
  • Oct 16, 2020
  • 1 min read



(CNN) One night in 2019, DJ Kgaogelo Moagi, better known as Master KG, called up singer Nomcebo to come to his Johannesburg studio to record a song.


"'But it's very late,'" Nomcebo recalled telling him. "'You want me to come now?'"


When she got there, the beat Master KG played gave her goosebumps; she loved it. It would later come together as the global hit, "Jerusalema."


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