Lungelo “Elkay Macburner” Mabaso was born and bred in WATERSMEET, LADYSMITH in KwaZulu-Natal, he grew up listening to many genres of music but his biggest influences came from the ones that fed his soul with raw emotions, craziest underground HIP-HOP, AFRO POP, KWAITO and MASKANDI.As a singer he released his FIRST MASKANDI album IXHWALAKHE "Nguwe Owangilahla" in 2014 and a COMMERCIAL HOUSE album CASHMINERS "Be In Touch" in 2015 which both was not a success before His music career leaded him to Afro-Trap, Afro-Pop and Hip-Hop music.
He participated in talent search shows like "IDOLS and The Lion King" from a young age, always knowing that this was what he wanted to do.He had been working with a recording studio called "SME ENTERTAINMENT" as a producer, vocalist, instrumentalist, graphic designer and a sound engineer for a period of five years producing “KWAITO, HOUSE, HIP-HOP and MASKANDI music. He is also a founder of “Macburnersa Digital” (MD DIGITAL) which provides young upcoming and well known artists with digital promotion, distribution and blog placement. He is no greenhorn when it comes to the stage, he has been able to share the stage with different underground and well known music artist like “DRENCKO, CHAKA DOLLA, MASEVEN OPSE and SBUDA P” from JOHANNESBURG.
