Young, energetic and colourful are words that are rarely associated with the image of a typical social worker – but this is exactly what Gqom artist Babes Wodumo may have become had she not been an entertainer.
In last week’s episode of Tropika Smooth fan, the Ka Dazz hit-maker revealed that she did a course in social work during her one-year stint at university before her music career kicked off and took all of her time.
Although the 24-year-old did not complete the course, it seems that helping others is a passion of hers as she also revealed that she started the West Ink Dance Academy in a bid to get children off the streets and onto the stage.
Here are 3 other cool things we learnt about Babes during the episode.
• Her stage name means ‘The Famous Babes’ and came to light after friends and family believed she had the same eyes as a member of the music group The Babes. The star added Wodumo to her stage name after she became famous for excelling at activities like dancing, acting, soccer and athletics.
• Babes starred alongside huge international acts like Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA and more on the official Black Panther soundtrack where she teams up with Zacari on a track titled ‘Redemption’.
• Babes has an incredibly strong social media following. Her Instagram page has over 1.3 million followers while her Twitter account is followed by more than 800 000 people.
Catch Tropika Smooth Fan every Friday at 18:00 on SABC 1 to find out some interesting facts about some of your favourite celebrities.
