YOUR IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PLANNER TO A FULFILLED AND RELAXED FLIGHT NOVEMBER 2019 #ISSUE9 LIGHT’S, CAMERA AND ACTION! ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. Sit back, relax and let us entertain you! BE ENTERTAINED IN THE NOVEMBER ISSUE CONTENTS 06 15 09 3. November Highlights 4. Interview 04 6. New Releases 9. African Choice 12. Kids’ Collection 13. Worldwide 14. Asian Collection 15. TV Series 16. TV Features 17. Music 18. Radio Features 19. Audio On Demand 20. Remotes 23. Games South African Airways is proud to offer it’s passengers a wide selection of movies, TV programmes and music tunes to keep you entertained through out your flight. Young or old, you will enjoy the latest comedy shows and fun kids programming, while for the more discerning tastes, we offer a fine variety of Wildlife, Business and Sport reports with a mix of our Worldwide and Asian titles. Besides the latest Blockbusters and old favourites, SAA continuously expands the African choice to support our local talent and provide other nationals with a glimpse into the heart of our nation. We invite you to sit back and relax while we take care of everything else. Refer to page 20 for assistance using your remote. AIRSCAPE | 2 NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS THE African skies ensure that we soak up the sun rays from all angles and in South Africa the festive season is one that most citizens look forward to. Make a pit stop onto the ZA soil from the coast to inner cities, summer is right here. November has the upcoming Pink Polo for the 10th year at Val de Vie Estate in the Western Cape. This is definitely a way to simmer down the rush of the year while easing into holiday mode. From Dumbo to keep your little ones on their seats, to the bond of friends on Tag, with John Wick: Chapter 2 in the mix, we’ve got you covered. Put your feet up, grab a snack and indulge. Here’s to a relaxed and fun-filled journey abroad our SAA flight, until the next one. We Recommend: Legendary human activist and singer, the late Jonny Clegg was loved and celebrated from all four corners of the world. Jonny Clegg, The White Zulu documentary is a beautiful package of his life. From when he committed to embracing and becoming one with the isiZulu culture, defied apartheid and fought for a peaceful South African through music and his life long best friend, whom he referred to as his brother, Sipho Mncunu, theirs is a match made in heaven. What We’re Talking About Multi Grammy Award winning star, Toni Braxton will be hitting all the high notes This Month on her forth coming As Long As I Live, South African Tour. On 9 November she Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie whose real name will be at the TicketPro Dome in is Michael Owusu Addo made history when Johannesburg followed by the Grand he became the first African rapper to win at Arena at Grand West Casino in Cape the international 2019 BET Hip-Hop Awards Town on 12 November 2019. in Atlanta, USA. Tickets are available from Ticketpro. He was crowned the Best International Flow Known for her hit songs she will be category which was a first of its kind. treating music lovers to a one of a kind Sarkodie shared his gratitude with a show. compelling acceptance speech where he dedicated his award to his daughter Titi and urged attendees to take a trip to Ghana. Africa, your time is now! DID YOU KNOW? South African designer Athi-Patra Ruga kept the world on its toes when he was revealed as one of the chosen collaborative designers for global designer brand, Christian Dior. The artist created two, Lady Dior bags using contemporary art. He was chosen as one of eleven artists from the world for the forth edition of Dior’s Art Project. The bags will be available in 27 Dior boutiques across the world in January 2020. AIRSCAPE | 3 MUSIC SEYI SHAY IS OUR ANCESTORS WILDEST DREAM “Music is my life, it is my world. It means everything to me, it means liberation freedom, identity, purpose for me and my life.” – Seyi Shay. IN a world of creativity and millions of talented individuals, with music, and it is hard not to fall in love with her. “Growing up one such breath taking talent who stands out is singer and my childhood was pretty fun, I grew up as a single child, even songwriter, Seyi Shay. though I have two older brothers and an older sister, I am the youngest from my mother. I never really had a father figure when Born Deborah Oluwaseyi Joshua in London, the British - I was growing up as my father and mother separated when I was Nigerian superstar describes herself as an entertainer that very young. I had all the luxuries that any child could ask for, my represents Africa. She turns heads not only with her voice mom worked hard for us. I went to good schools, played the violin, but tall structure and presence. lived in a nice four bedroom house in London among other things.,” said Seyi. Seyi is the epitome of cool and a goddess in every right, one who is not scared to celebrate who she is and where She was fortunate enough to have the best of both worlds as she she comes from, the world is her oyster! was exposed to the UK and Nigeria, “I had the best of both worlds an it shows in my music now. I grew up in England and visited The wordsmith currently has the African flag on her Nigeria where I later attended school there. I did my primary school shoulders as she released a remix of her song Gimme Love in London and then moved to Nigeria where I continued to do my featuring American star Teyana Taylor and it is rocking schooling there where I did my early part of secondary school airwaves from all four corners of the world. before coming back to the U.K, completing my secondary school We caught up with the beauty, who let us in on her journey and then going off to college and university.” AIRSCAPE | 4 MUSIC Asked about the differences in both worlds she was exposed to she said that England and Nigeria are very different, “Nigeria is very cultural and a bit backwards even till today whereas England is a bit more current, more security, even though there not a lot of opportunities versus Nigeria as it is a more fertile and, it has room for more potential, growth and opportunities.” The artist said that she knew she had a talent early in her life and found her gift when she sang in the church and school choir and she says It was where she nurtured her voice. “Music has always been in my family, my sister would write scores for BBC1, My brother was a DJ, mom sang in the choir and my immediate brother used to pen down lyrics and I used to read through his note books. “My mom was not really happy about me being a singer, she wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer so we really did not see eye to eye for most of my teenage years. Funny enough a couple of weeks week before she died she gave me her blessings, she said she dreamt I became a superstar and moved back home and became huge, it was her kind of giving me her blessing,” she reminisced. The Murda hitmaker was exposed to the glitzy world of music way before she broke into the African market, she was the lead of a five girl band called From Above which was signed to Beyonce Knowles father and former manager, Mathew Knowles. Seyi said: “My first encounter with Mathew was incredible, we were rehearsing as From Above for a show, and he was tipped off that there were five “The name Seyi Shay came to life though Mathew Knowles girls called From Above, he was in the UK with Seyi is Yoruba and Shay is the British way of saying Shay. Beyonce. He came to meet us and we all screamed, Mathew did not like SEYI as he felt the Western world would it was filmed, our managers at the time had it planned but we knew nothing about it. “We then not understand it, so we joined the SHAY to it.” sang and danced for him, the following week we signed with him and we were on our way to likes of Brandy, Chris Brown, Ariana and to my surprise said yes. Houston, USA the House Of Deréon which is where Grande, Ciara, Ne-Yo and Mary J Blige “I already had the song Gimme Love out and Destiny’s Child was developed and where we also just to mention a few, “Harmony I believed so much in it and we sent it spent the next three years developing our talents. nurtured my recording abilitie, he went through to her and she told me that her During this time I learned a lot of things including on to do great things when we daughter loved it and she would be discipline and resilience.” separated as kids,” said Seyi. honoured and so immediately I sent to her, she did it and then later we hooked up and During this time under Mathew, the band also In 2015 she released her first solo shot the video together in Harlem, New opened for Beyonce while on tour in the UK, “If I album, Seyi Or Shay which she York.” could go back in time and relive a moment, it would executive produced and funded herself, The song has been well received globally as be going on tour with Beyonce on her U.K , I AM now she has a full team – Aristokrat about a week after it was released it was on tour.