The US singer leads a hoard of Grammy-winners that will perform at this year’s festival.
“I think before I should ask of the listener to hear something new, I should give them what they’ve appreciated over time,” said Maxwell, adding that he’ll have Mzansi’s favourites like“Every time I’ve went there, they’re like ‘you’re gonna play that song’ and I had no idea it was such a big record there. But I’m gonna play everything you guys made happened for me, I’m in service to the listeners, I’m in service to the audience.
“I just wanted to go places and do things, like people. Thank God for my genes, I grew all the hair back. I think the pandemic kind of helped, I couldn’t get a haircut at that point, everything was locked up and it just grew and we’re back with the old vibes.” “When you say someone is a brand, you take all the creativity out of it and you make it a product. I don’t think human beings are brands. Cereal is a brand, orange juice is a brand but a human being is not a brand. I think that’s why I took those kind of risks back in the day and now.”
The singer’s full name is Gerald Maxwell Rivera, but in the interview he shared that he opted to use his middle name also as a form of protecting his family from the prying media. “I think more than anything, I just wanted to keep my creative life separate from my physical life on planet earth, I don’t know it’s just something I felt I needed to protect. The world can be invasive and especially in this day and age, where people are more concerned about what toothbrush you use and all these things that have nothing to do with music.”
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