Khaya Mthethwa

Khaya Mthethwa, Despite his obvious talent, Khaya Mthethwa’s singing career got off to a bumpy start! “At school we were all forced to audition for the school choir, so from there my teachers would ask me to sing and I never really wanted to!”. Fortunately for Idols both of Khaya’s parents are pastors, so he pretty much had to sing in church! “That is where I fell in love with music and I decided that this is what I wanted to do…”

Khaya Mthethwa comes from a well groomed background where his parents started their church in the family living room as he recalls, growing up with the mentality of sharing his home with strangers as his parents took people in – experience that will come in handy in the Idols house. “Sharing and caring was the name of the game,” says Khaya, and it also gave him a wonderful role model to look up to. “I look up my father, he is my hero,” Khaya says. “He taught me to be the man I am today.” South Afica