Fans ask Dr Malinga, are we sleeping this year? And he replies with new song. Sleep is for the dead. It’s a saying Dr Malinga lives by. It’s a saying he will be remembered for. ‘Sleep for what? Sleep for who?’isn’t just his signature, but also the secret ingredient to making some chart-topping hits. While most of our favourite tunes are about love, Dr Malinga’s hits are all about not sleeping.
Dr Malinga told TshisaLIVE recently: “I don’t sleep because I am a hard worker. We don’t sleep because the festive season is the time for us to celebrate all the other sleepless nights we’ve had during the year. My songs are for people that work hard.”
Dr Malinga is so well known for not sleeping, that even DJ Tira posted about it:
When asked about his obsession with not sleeping, Dr Malinga said when he started his career, his intention was never to be known as the dude who ‘can’t get no sleep’.
What problem does @drmalinga have with sleep? As a nation we need to address this issue! pic.twitter.com/Cac7Ezs4Vf
— DrMusa (@DrMusaMthombeni) October 9, 2018
But, when his first two hits shared the insomnia theme, he had no choice but to give his listeners what they wanted. He said when December rolls along, he’s often asked; ‘Dr Malinga, are we sleeping this year?’
His latest single, Solalek’seni, means we will sleep in the morning. It joins his long line of “We ain’t sleeping”, “You can’t sleep when you have money” and “I didn’t sleep last night” among others.
He said he wrote the song in 30 minutes after he got a DM asking him to give a signal like mama and say whether or not the plan for Dezemba included sleeping.
“I don’t even remember where I was when I saw that message. But if you saw how fast I ran back to my studio, you would have thought I was crazy. The inspiration hit me and I asked Rude Boyz to hook me up with a beat and the rest is history!”
Dr Malinga said he’s already shooting a music video for the song and that fans should be ready for it sometime next week. Till then he’s forever #TeamNoSleep.
Source: briefly.co.za
