Unqle Chriz

Unqle Chriz (/ˌʌŋ.kl̩ˈkɹɪs/), born Christopher Baloyi on 13 May 1985 is a South African singer-songwriter.

Biography
Baloyi started singing at 15 and has written songs for several fellow independent South African musicians. He is the founder of Blu Soul Media, The Annual Blusoul Underrated Star Awards and the annual Blusoul Red Carpet Show. In 2008, Unqle Chriz (who was then Chris B) became the first artist to write an R&B song (N'wa Mathebula) in Tsonga, and the song got its first airplay on Munghana Lonene FM. In the same year, the song was nominated for the 2008 ML FM Awards. In 2009, Unqle Chriz changed his stage name from Chris B to Unqle Chriz to avoid confusion with the R&B singer Chris Brown. In 2010, he was asked by radio personality and DJ Magubane Da Franchiz to make jingles for ML FM during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but the jingles only played for three months. Later in 2010, Unqle Chriz started collaborating with Indies from the United States. His first collaboration was with a Bronx, New York City based indie artist Yakini Crews. From then on he met a few more Indies on Facebook. One of the songs to circulate was Conversation. Which featured a Florida-based hip-hop indie, Brandon Skyy. In 2011, he met Angela Theus, an independent songwriter from the USA on Facebook, who introduced him to RG Kelly Sr, a songwriter from Milwaukee. In 2012, he met Zell Starr, an indie rapper from Cincinnati, who introduced him to K Chill, CEO of Chillzone Entertainment. Chriz also met up with the artist Kenny Lattimore at the Maphungubye Jazz Festival. In December 2014, Unqle Chriz was one of Cassper Nyovest's opening acts at Europa, Sunnyside, Pretoria. On 2014 December 6, he released a hit single, Limpopo so beautiful on iTunes. and later on he contributed to the "sharing is caring" event hosted by the Dan Moagi Foundation. On 3 April 2015, it was announced that Unqle Chriz was one of the award nominees. However, he did not win the award.

Singles

 * 2008, N'wa Mathebula
 * 2009, Mbhuri
 * 2013, Butterflies
 * 2014, Limpopo, So Beautiful
 * 2015, Skhanda love (R&B Remix)
 * 2015, No Money

Awards

 * ML FM Awards Nominations
 * 2008, Best R&B Artist: "N'wa Mathebula"


 * F.A.M.E SA Awards Nominations
 * 2015, Best Newcomer: "Limpopo, So Beautiful"