South African singer and song­writer, Nom­ce­bo Nothule Zikode, is sched­uled to be a part of Car­ni­val 2023 events host­ed by I.S. Pro­mo and Gem­i­ni Pro­duc­tion.

A re­lease from the pro­mot­ers re­veals that Nom­ce­bo al­so will be col­lab­o­rat­ing with sev­er­al lo­cal artistes, com­bin­ing her earthy Afrobeat rhythms with sweet T&T so­ca.

“Nom­ce­bo is ex­pect­ed to grace our shores in ear­ly Ju­ly 2022 to per­son­al­ly en­gage in the cre­ative process,” the pro­mot­ers said.

“This gift­ed and pro­lif­ic Singer/Song­writer will not on­ly be bless­ing us with her stun­ning beau­ty and amaz­ing vo­cal tal­ent when she touch­es down for Trinidad Car­ni­val 2023 but will al­so be col­lab­o­rat­ing with lo­cal So­ca artistes on So­ca/Afrobeat in­fused tracks, to be re­leased for the 2023 fes­ti­val,” they added.

Nom­ce­bo, to­geth­er with Ivory Coast vo­cal­ist Elody Amond­ji, al­so is sched­uled to cre­ative­ly col­lab­o­rate with Trinidad and To­ba­go com­pos­er/pro­duc­er Ian Wilt­shire.  Wilt­shire is re­spon­si­ble for com­pos­ing the David Michael Rud­der su­per hit “Tri­ni 2 The Bone”, af­fec­tion­ate­ly con­sid­ered by some to be Trinidad & To­ba­go’s un­of­fi­cial na­tion­al an­them.

I.S. Pro­mo and Gem­i­ni Pro­duc­tion not­ed that al­so join­ing the cre­ative-col­lab­o­ra­tive-en­sem­ble would be the young Trinidad & To­ba­go “Triple Threat” phe­nom, Singer/Com­pos­er/Pro­duc­er Mi­cal Te­ja.

Nom­ce­bo‘s glob­al mega hit “JERUSALE­MA”, has re­ceived com­bined views of close to one bil­lion on YouTube, since its pre­miere on 13 De­cem­ber 2019.  It was re­spon­si­ble for spawn­ing a line dance craze world­wide.

The song went vi­ral dur­ing the ear­ly days of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, when peo­ple were con­fined to their homes in lock­downs world-wide.  Many did not un­der­stand its isiZu­lu lyrics, but re­spond­ed to its in­her­ent re­li­gious theme, be­cause of as­so­ci­a­tions with the Bib­li­cal city of Jerusalem.