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Momo removed all Red Bull Symphonic-related content from his social media.
Kelvin Momo has released a new album, this after speculation of him no longer performing at the Redbull Symphonic Ochestra. Picture: Kelvin Momo/Facebook
Music producer Kelvin Momo has released a new album after a tumultuous week in the media, which led to speculation about his involvement at this year’s Red Bull Symphonic.
“It’s not just an album for me, this one hits home,” wrote Momo on his Instagram stories.
Real name Thato Ledwaba, on Friday, Momo released the 29-track album titled Thato.
“This is the only way I can express my emotions and feelings,” Momo wrote in his Instagram stories.
This week, Momo’s team released an apologetic statement after the amapiano producer missed two shows he was scheduled for the weekend before.
Earlier this month, reports emerged about an Australian promoter filing a liquidation application against Momo’s company, Kelvin Momo Production, in the Johannesburg High Court.
This was after he failed to honour his performance commitments in Melbourne and Perth, where he was booked to play 60-minute sets on two consecutive nights in November 2024.
The Citizen reached out to the producer and his team for comment. However, no response was received at the time of publishing.
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Speculation over Redbull Symphonic participation
Amid the negative media reports surrounding him, Momo removed all Red Bull Symphonic-related content from his social media.
This led to speculation and concern that he might no longer perform at the concert, together with music director and conductor Adam Howard and the Egoli Symphonic Orchestra.
Kelvin removed the Symphonic posts alongside the link to the event? 😭😭😭😭😭🤣
— Island gworl🏝️ (@ndzalyy_) May 28, 2025
The Citizen reached out to Red Bull for comment following the removal of the content from Momo’s social media. No response was received.
However, on Friday morning, following The Citizen’s enquiry, which was shared with Momo and Red Bull, the producer reinstated all the Red Bull Symphonic posts that had been removed a few days earlier.
What Momo did was archive his Instagram posts.
This is a tool on Instagram that allows a person to remove a post from the public’s view temporarily. Yet, the account holder can still see the archived posts and even unarchive them to make them visible on their Instagram feed again.
Before this, Momo had posted a cryptic message on his Instagram about choosing himself.
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Momo’s long album
Some have joked that his albums are so long that one can drive from Joburg to Limpopo just listening to one of Momo’s albums until they reach their destination.
His latest release runs for just under four hours.
“You know when you’re in studio and you do a song and the song becomes nicer as you add more elements like the bass guitar. I just decide there that the song is getting stretched and made longer because it shouldn’t be this short,” Momo told The Citizen earlier this year.
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