Sanele Sydow (born 4 January 1999) better known by his stage name WizTheMc, is a South African-German singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer based in Berlin, Germany. He is best known for his 2020 breakout single "For a Minute", which has over 76 million streams on Spotify, and his 2025 collaboration with Bees & Honey, "Show Me Love" which has achieved gold certification in the UK, and top five chart positions in the UK and Germany with over 193M streams on Spotify. Since 2018, he has released three mixtapes, eight EPs, one compilation album, and over a dozen singles. He has also toure
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WizTheMc was born in Cape Town, South Africa on the 4th of January 1999. Two years later he moved with his mother and his older brother to Lüneburg, Germany, where he wrote his first song in December 2014. Starting to rap with his friends (NOHOMES), he realised that he always took his verses more seriously than any other member out of the NOHOMES. A couple months after summer 2015, when NOHOMES was founded, WizTheMc found himself alone in his room writing lyrics and freestyling, while all of h
Sanele Sydow (born 4 January 1999) better known by his stage name WizTheMc, is a South African-German singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer based in Berlin, Germany. He is best known for his 2020 breakout single "For a Minute", which has over 76 million streams on Spotify, and his 2025 collaboration with Bees & Honey, "Show Me Love" which has achieved gold certification in the UK, and top five chart positions in the UK and Germany with over 193M streams on Spotify. Since 2018, he has released three mixtapes, eight EPs, one compilation album, and over a dozen singles. He has also toured across Europe, United States, and Canada with artists like Lola Young, Half Alive, Charlie Curtis-Beard, Dave East, Kid Bloom, RIZ LA VIE, Francis Karel, and UPSAHL.
== Early life == Sanele Sydow was born in 1999 in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2001, At the age of 2 his family immigrated to Lüneburg, Germany where he grew up.
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