Daniel Koppel – fondly often called Danny Okay – has mirrored on his early music profession, significantly his debut single Damage So Unhealthy.

The R&B star, who’s now an astute businessman, appeared in a latest episode of Podcast & Chill alongside MacG and Sol Phenduka.

DANNY Okay TALKS HIS RACE MISCLASSIFICATION

Talking on Podcast & Chill, he mirrored on his music profession, which has spanned over 20 years. This included the discharge of seven albums, considered one of which was filmed with the late Kwaito star Mandoza.

In keeping with the now 46-year-old, he felt just like the “token white singer” within the trade.

Nonetheless, many followers mistook the singer’s racial id as being a white Jewish man.

“I didnt get any love from YFM, Metro FM was simpler.  All of the Cape City [radio stations] thought I used to be a colored man. When Damage So Unhealthy, everybody thought I used to be colored”.

He continued: “They might invite me on these [music] reveals, and the hosts can be black, and I used to be this white man. The response from the black group was overwhelmingly constructive”.

In 2000, Danny Okay burst onto the music scene launch of his debut single, Damage So Unhealthy. 

The track, in addition to the music video that includes the baby-faced singer, catapulted him into stardom.

Damage So Unhealthy featured the backup vocals of one other R&B star, TK Mhinga, who died of a suspected drug overdose in 2006.

SPEAKING OUT ABOUT WHITE PRIVILEGE

Through the interview, Danny Okay additionally touched on his viral “white privilege” tweet, which ruffled feathers on the X (previously Twitter) platform.

In 2019, the singer triggered a stir on social media when he known as on white South Africans to be held accountable for racism.

He tweeted: “You don’t should be woke to get that for essentially the most half now we have benefited from the marginalisation and exclusion of individuals of color. Personal your privilege, respect it, and pay it ahead”.

Addressing the tweet,  Danny mentioned of the backlash: “It’s a tough matter in South Africa.

“I got here from a time once I was on the cusp of seeing what white privilege might do for my dad and mom. My father had some success in commerce as a result of he wasn’t competing in opposition to a black South Africa.

“The talents to succeed was a lot higher, and the pool was a lot smaller. I recognized that every thing I received in my life was by advantage of the truth that he was privileged, and I used to be a beneficiary of that”.

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