L-Tido
| L-Tido | |
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| Birth name | Thato Lloyd Madonsela |
| Born |
January 30, 1982 Alexandra, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupation(s) |
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| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Associated acts |
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| Website | www |
Thato Madonsela (born January 30, 1982), better known by his stage name L-Tido, is a South African hip hop recording artist from Alexandra, Johannesburg. He is best known for being one of the few independent artists in the country to reach commercial success, winning the Best Newcomer in Africa award at the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards (an honour he received without having released an album) and receiving numerous other award nominations.
L-Tido's music career began in 2009 when he self-released, self-marketed and hand-to-hand distributed his mixtape City of Gold. It received a lot of acclaim, with a number of songs being played on several radio stations and topping numerous radio and music video charts. The success of the mixtape lead to award nominations and the winning of Channel O's Most Gifted Newcomer award.
On 30 June 2011, L-Tido independently released his debut album, All or Nothing, which was said to reveal everything about his journey and what it took for this rising star to get to where he is. The album includes collaborations with K.O from Teargas, Nigerian singer Banky W, Tumi from Tumi and the Volume, Da L.E.S of Jozi and Maggz.
The album was well received with several songs topping numerous charts, including Channel O Weekly Charts, MTV Base African Chart, etv's Club 808 Chart, French music channel Trace TV's Africa Top 10 Chart; and "We Rollin" becoming the number 2 most played song in the country according to the country's RAM charts (a site which organises, calculates and analyses the most played songs on various local radio stations in the country), a first for a hip hop song in the country. L-tido also became the first hip hop artist to have two songs in the Top 10 of the RAM chart at the same time.
L-Tido directs and conceptualises all of his music videos. He was one of the artists who pioneered the shift in the level of quality of music videos delivered by hip hop artists in the country. Lerato Matsotso of the Daily Sun (South Africa's biggest daily newspaper) noted this movement by saying, "Artists from SA are shifting from just shooting party music videos with the usual pool full of half-naked girls to investing in videos and coming up with great storylines", and identified L-Tido's work as "music videos that will give the international videos a run for their money".
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