“Tonight you may laugh within my pain, he was quoted saying after recalling various trials and tribulations on his way on the top, including a primary decision to steer a painful distance into town from prison upon his release, refusing to spend the the R20 fond of him with the State to look at a taxi.
After then nevertheless the note was “all that stood between me and poverty, yet be forced to use that same note to be sure his parents’ home had food that night.
“But you're only capable of singing so tonight because I were able to turn that pain into champagne, McKenzie said on Friday.