Multi-award-winning reggae/dancehall musician Pepsin, bornin the Northern Cape town of Kimberley, known as the city of diamonds, is proving to be a real life diamond.The name Pepsin comes from his original nickname “Papi” known and called by his family and friends back home. Pepsin means “an object that inspires other objects to blossom or become better objects”. “I am an inspiring Vigour. The name just automatically changed from Papi to Pepsin. Don’t know how, don’t know when – I guess it’s just a natural reaction like the force of gravity,” shares Pepsin.
 

Pepsin celebrates yet another nomination at this year’s South African Music Awards for the Maximum StylezPresents: Red Carpet Live, Vol 1 compilation in the category – Best Reggae Album, where he contributed a live rendition of his hit single “Reconciliation”. 
 

“I feel blessed. I am excited. I’m on top of the world. I’m happy that the South African Music Awards acknowledges and recognises my work and it’s a clear sign that I’ve done well and continue to do so,”expresses Pepsin. 
 

The Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) announced that the South African Music Awards will add Reggae as a standalone category known as Best Reggae Album three years ago, there has been a steady stream of artists enlisting to be contenders and repeat contenders. 
 

Pepsin shares: “Having Best Reggae Album as a standalone category at the SAMAs means growth for us as Reggae artists. It also means that the music industry in South Africa is opening up to Reggae music as one of the genres that contributes positively to the economy of the country. For artists like myself, it means greater opportunities to be listened to, like other genres, as well as provides collaboration opportunities with other artists who now see this genre as viable on a mainstream level.”
 

Under his label, Maximum Stylez Records & Publishing, Pepsin received an addition two #SAMA29 nominations for his signee Blakka Yut, who received a Best Newcomer nomination as well as a Best Reggae Album nomination for his project “Unleashed”. 
 

Make sure to connect with Pepsin online for more on his road to #SAMA29 and keep requesting his single “Reconciliation”, taken off his 2022 Reflections album, from your favourite radio stations. 
 

Connect with Pepsin:

Facebook: Pepsin Mkhanyakude
Twitter/X: @pepsin_sa
Instagram: @pepsin_za
Website: www.maximumstylez.co.za