Real name: Monwabisi Dennis Yekani

Effective period / Period of releases: 1989 - 1990

South African singer - songwriter and producer.

the Monwa and Sun duo was formed when Monwabisi Dennis Yekani met Poth Nkotsoe.
As already mentioned, Monwabisi had been in music for some time already and with the younger Poth they made a formidable team that released their debut album Majekeje on the Cool Spot label. Their follow-up in 1989 was "Tigers Don’t Cry" featuring the title track as well as Makonrad. All the music was written by Monwabisi, engineered and produced by Mally Watson. In 1990 they both went solo. Monwa’s debut album was Aweyo, still on the Cool Spot label. It featured the title track and 1990 written and arranged by Monwabisi and produced by Mally Watson who also engineered it. In 1991 Monwa followed Poth to Tusk Music and released Mama Kuse, a self-written album produced by the same production team that had worked on Sun’s album.