Nongoma, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa- From being internationally signed as 99anchor to being widely known as Empire. Sakhile Khayalethu Empire Nxumalo continues to breach the gap between independent artist and record label.

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Empire, after an unfairly terminated record label contract has been making more waves through his third name, with more productivity and engagement as an independent artist without any large record label funding, while working with multi-platinum selling and Grammy nominated producers that have worked with high ranked industry artists.

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Empire released a single on the 24th of January 2021, he released a single song, titled Pressure. In that song he stresses out to his life partner that he has a lot work to focus on, and figuratively pleading for her patience while he deals with the sometimes bias society that surrounds him. 

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"I got a ton of weight holding me still, I can't appeal, to all the weight-less things on my list, for I need to feel, my weight, loosening and not adding up..."

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Quoted from Pressure, by Empire

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Empire is an independent artist with a more poetry applied lyricism, and devotes a lot of himself to his line of work.

 

As Empire he is a South African rapper, composer, author, recording & audio engineer, and also music producer with an array of music releases on all digital music stores. 

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