Her career in music began when she was still young, at the age of 9 she started playing classical piano and composing music.
Her major break in music was when she was performing at a live show when producer Markus Els approached her and invited her to record few songs at a studio. A demo of the songs she recorded was given to Vusi Leeuw. Leeuw later presented the demo to Sony Music Africa. Delazy signed a record deal with Sony Music Africa on 19 April 2011.
In 2011 she dropped her debut studio album ‘Due Drop’. Delazy was nominated in the Best International Act (Africa) category at the 2013. On 28th October 2014 she released her second album ‘Forbidden Fruit’. In an interview Delazy said that the song “tells the story of someone discovering themselves, someone who cannot compromise on what they desire, and also exposing Africans to pan sexuality; making them understand that it’s something that exists.”
She relocated to London in 2016 where she started her own record label, Delazy Entertainment. She won an award at the 2016 OutMusic Awards for the song Forbidden Fruit, which had a video featuring a same-gender couple kissing and was seen as a powerful statement on LGBT equality.
Her song titled 'Heart': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCaNfQry8GU&index=1&list=RDEMzFbROp7YnZFrNZASsxQicA
Now, to enhance her already glittering career, she has been chosen as the new Power Puff Girl named 'Bliss', the uber popular Cartoon Network TV show.
Jamie Ondarza, Senior Vice President at Turner Broadcasting in Southern Europe and Africa, said: “Toya is definitely a perfect fit as the fourth Powerpuff Girl. She is confident, bubbly and quirky, all the values that we are familiar with, love and appreciate. We have a lot of surprises up our sleeves.”
Visit her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/toyadelazy/
Toya, from us at Africa Design Kingdom & the rest of South Africa, woohoo! you go girl!
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