Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 11 November 2015 | Page 67

THE COMEBACK QUEEN: You cannot have a list of top musical achievement without Adele featuring somewhere. The extraordinary Brit decimated all records with the release of Hello, her first single in three years earlier this year. In true Adele style, it is a thumping punch of emotion and has earned a combined total of 333 000 sales during its first week, making it the UK’s biggest No. 1 single in three years. It also broke the online streaming record, with 7.32 million plays —beating previous holder Justin Bieber, whose “What Do You Mean" earned 3.87 million streams in a week. Here the song here: THE ONE TO WATCH: Venda born and now Cape Town based King Lutendo has been making music for over five years. The twenty three year old uses his experiences in visual communications as an illustrator and graphic designer to produce his own videos, lyrics and artwork that accompanies his music and received his first play radio debut in 2013 on mainstream radio, where he was the only independent artist in the top five, coming in at number three. King Lutendo’s most recent single, Viva la Fuego, which means Long Live the Flame in Spanish, has recently caught the eye of German based dubster producer, Johan de Kock, who will be remixing the single for his own album. A small town guy doing being things – listen here: