Berenike “Berry” Trytsman was made an instant millionaire after she was announced as the Idols SA’s season 17 winner on Sunday night at the Urban Brew studios in Randburg. The prize money could not have come at a better time because, more than anything, winning Idols SA for the 31-year-old means settling debts and financial freedom.
Berry said, as she let out a sigh of relief:
The married mother of four will be able to pay off her debts and still enjoy the fruits of her hard work as her prize package includes R85 000 worth of musical equipment from Yamaha, a record deal with Kalawa Jazmee Records, a Renault Kiger, R100 000 in Truworths fashion vouchers, R260 000 from Regenesys Business School to pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Samsung Galaxy Fold3 on a Vodacom Red 100GB plan.
“I did not expect this at all. Every week I thought I was going home and eventually I thought I need to rely on the people with and around me and be happy because I will not experience this journey again in my life. A highlight for me was embracing what it was and being strong not just for ourselves but for our families too,” says the season 17 winner.
The sultry singer won the love of South Africans who nicknamed her “Mabherera” and “Mabherana” and called her voters “The Berries”. She looked striking during her last performance, dressed in a black miniskirt paired with ankle boots, a gemstone covered crop top and sunglasses while performing Lady Gaga’s The Edge of Glory.
After her performance, judge Randall Abrahams commented:
For Berry, who hails from Cape Town, it has always been about her voice and nothing else, and she never paid attention to the keyboard warriors who bullied her about her age on social media.
“The same people that made jokes about my age are the same people that love Beyoncé, Adele, and Jennifer Lopez [who] are all older.
“They will know that they are never too young or too old to do something,” she said.
Berry first entered Idols when she was 20 and made a promise to herself that she would return before she was over the allowed age. In between life happened – she got married, had a child, got divorced, got married again and had another child, and her now husband encouraged her to enter again because she had nothing to lose.
Little did she know she was in it to win it and being away from her family for two months was worth it.
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