Duduzile Ngwenya better known as DJ Lady Du is an award-winning Amapiano DJ, songwriter and vocalist who has been in the industry since she was only 10 years old.
Lady Du was born in Vosloorus into a musical family and her father is a veteran DJ and music producer who was also born into a musical family.
Here is everything you need to know about DJ Lady Du’s father, their scandal that blew up the internet and where the father-daughter duo currently stand.
Who is Lady Du’s father?
Lady Du’s father is DJ Choc. He is a Hip Hop deejay, music producer and sound engineer who hails from Vosloorus and has been in the music industry for decades.
DJ Choc’s career began in the late 1980s after his father opened the popular nightclub- Dukes Place in 1987.
His gigs at Dukes Place gained DJ Choc’s popularity and he landed other gigs in other clubs and radio stations including Kaya FM, YFM and Metro FM.
Over the years, DJ Choc has worked with some big names in the industry including Mthembu Mncedisi, Rihiwe Manayage, DJ Cleo, DJ Clock and Skipper Shabalala, just to name a few.
What did Lady Du’s father do?
In May 2022, both Lady Du and her father trended after they had a small misunderstanding that quickly escalated and blew up in their faces.
The whole saga began after DJ Lady Du shared a post that painted her struggles growing up which might have subtly implied that she grew up in a humble background.
Part of her now-deleted post explained how she wanted a different upbringing for her daughter and is working to provide her with a better life, which she apparently did not have. You can see how that would have been interpreted to mean that she grew up poor.
The statement was not well-received by her father who in a video shared his frustrations about his daughter’s statements as he explained that he had worked hard to provide everything for Lady Du and was confused with her implying that she grew up in poverty.
“I do not know what Lady Du means when she says she grew up poor when I worked so hard to give her a comfortable life. She then went and h*ed around and ate money with all these men and she continues to spend money on these men. What is she doing now? She did not grow up poor, she had everything she needed.” Lady Du’s father said in part of the video.
It didn’t take long for the video to go viral and for tweeps to react to the video with many tweeps bashing Lady Du for being “ungrateful” and others criticizing her father for bashing her publicly.
Did Lady Du and her father patch things up?
While DJ Lady Du denied ever claiming that she grew poor, her father also shared an official statement apologizing for the video explaining that he had recorded and shared the video with a family member to vent out his frustrations about Lady Du’s claims but that it was never his intention to engage in the social media drama that followed.
It appears that the father-daughter duo resolved their differences and their relationship is much better. A few months after the drama, Lady Du took to Instagram to share with her fans that she and her brother/road manager Sipho Something had gone to surprise their father with a visit and she even shared a photo of herself with her father.
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