When house music star Bucie (pictured) earned three nods at the South African Music Awards this year, it was expected. What was not expected was her walking away with the biggest accolade, Best Female Artist, and even she could not believe it.
“I feel blessed and honoured to be where I am. I have to be honest, I was nominated three times – for the Best Dance album, Song of the Year and Best Female. So I thought to myself that at least I must come home with one. I did not know it would be the huge one,” she said.
“You are not the only one who is putting out work. So for me, Best Female meant that of all the people who are doing good things out there, for this year I am the best among all the female contenders,” she added.
While giving her acceptance speech, Bucie unfortunately forgot to mention one of her main producers, Heavy K, who in turn took to social media to express his disgust.
“I heard what he said through the media and was hurt because he did not come to me first. There are a lot of things that went wrong with that debacle and I don’t like to speak about it much because it hurts and we have not spoken about it yet. He hasn’t come to me so I am really not in a position to talk about how he feels,” she said.
Her award-winning album is titled Princess of House and the singer revealed why she is house music royalty.
“I love my fans. If I could, I would turn them into one person and give them a hug. They are the ones who have got me here and I appreciate them. These fans are not only South Africans, but from all over the world. They range from Americans to Europeans, especially the Portuguese. I used to travel a lot to Portugal where they were calling me the queen. Back then I was young so I had to take it down a notch and rather go with princess of house. I will graduate to queen one day,” she explained.
Bucie remained mum on what her fans could expect from her next project: “I don’t like pressure so I never talk about what I am going to put out. So instead of saying I am going to do what-not in June, I just let June get here and then I do it. I plan to go back to acting and if there are any roles out there and they are not time consuming, I will take them. I am an artist and do not have the luxury of sitting in one place for the whole day.”
Bucie has loved entertainment all her life and could never do anything else.
“The idea of working in an office would make me crazy. I like the anxiety that comes with being an artist. Yes, we get paid at uncertain times, but I believe the more you push your craft the more work you will get because word of mouth goes far in this industry.”
• Princess of House is in music stores and on iTunes.