For our feature article on Yanga YaYa, we caught up with him in Cape Town, where we talked about a lot of things around his career. Yanga also explained the meaning of his cover art for his debut single **It Happens.

What’s the meaning behind the cover art for **It Happens?

Shot it in his garden [Trevor Stuurman], I was just down visiting [Johannesburg]. I was like dude I need album art ideas, he was like ‘okay’. I was like dude let’s conceptualise something. He was like, ‘okay what are you thinking’? It’s sort of my first solo project, its something that’s going to mark a start of something.

I also wanted it to relate to the song as well. The song is about fallacies, imperfections, learning to forgive yourself and being human. So we came up with the idea of doing a Garden of Eden thing. Equating the beginning of what some might say is the beginning of time, beginning of a new journey. Being like Adam in it, also beginning of sin and relating to the fact that sin happened through people but the bible didn’t end at Genesis, it wasn’t cut. It continued there was forgiveness, people continued to multiply. So the message of the song is sharp you make mistakes, you need to forgive yourself, it happens.