ABOUT US
Blue Sky South Africa is Africa’s next biggest Entertainment Industry Platform that grooms local talent to a point where they reach their maturing point and realises their dreams in full. We are a communications and marketing agency based in Hermanus near Cape Town (South Africa). Under are our wings we have a full team of musicians, graphic designers, photographers and content producers that work together to grow each talent that we work with under the company. We represent some of Africa’s talented emerging creatives and we are extremely happy to be driving their careers, we know that very soon our creatives will be celebrated internationally. We offer our products and services with international standards and in African characteristics.
Being a team of creatives ourselves with different industry experiences, qualifications, network and expertise, it makes it easy to drive a flexible industry through our company that makes it easy for all our clients to work with us, flexibility is the uniqueness of our business. Understanding the different dynamics of different brands and clients allows us to service our clients accordingly and reach their desired demographics. We strive to rectify the previous industry mistakes as well as advance some of the industry expired working models to the new age functionalities, we believe in listening to our clients and creatives, so their voice is heard.
WHY US
Blue Sky South Africa is an experimental entertainment company with many different and interesting business ventures from marketing, communications, music production & engineering, merchandise production, events organizing, management & coordination, event equipment hiring services, and a talent management agency. We are home to South Africa’s most talented emerging artists, models, and creatives. Our vision and mission are purely to see great talent from grassroots levels reaching the mainstream and having our own grown talent be amongst the best in the world. We simply exist to bridge the gap between well-established international brands and our local quality brands by being involved in nurturing, grooming, and mentoring grassroots talent to fit international quality standards. We then realize our dream through the satisfaction of our clients with the quality of products and services produced, manufactured, or curated by our own local grassroots creatives. We are the proof to up & coming creatives that it is possible to live your dreams #SkyIsLimitless
Living and growing up in different rural-urban areas from villages, townships, and cities allowed us to have enough knowledge and experience on different demographics. This enables us to build relationships between our clients and their most targeted markets.
What if policies of all industries came from clients? What if artists had a say on the type of deal and contracts, they sign with a record label? What if a model had a say in the contract they sign with an agency? What if a client met the executor of their job before contracts were signed? Well, all of this might sound not practical; it is much possible, and this is what we are all about. Parties that work with us, sit down with us to draft their own agreements which come from both parties, and everything is specified in detail. This then ensures the happiness of our clients and strengthens the relationship between us, our creatives, and our valued clients. The more we become transparent with our clients and creatives, the easier it becomes for everyone to trust us, work with us in faith, and put in their best in all their projects. Eventually, this then guarantees a long-term relationship between our clients and their market.
Our transparency to all our clients is the key point that allows many of our clients to trust our products and services as well as our innovation. We have flexible means and different industry strategies that help us simplify our work as well as make it easy for both our clients and our creatives to get their jobs done successfully, efficiently, and according to client order. We gained our strategies through the experience of being involved in the industry for years.
Founder & Managing Director: Siyabulela Notwala
Siyabulela Notwala is a young social entrepreneur that was born and raised in the dusty streets of a small town called Dimbaza near King Williams Town in Eastern Cape. This is where his love for entrepreneurship started and was nurtured. Dimbaza has an industrial area which was back in the day’s employment hub for many of Eastern Cape residents as well as people from other provinces came to Dimbaza to seek for employment in the olden days.
Siya also known with his stage name Master Blaq is a founder of Blue Sky South Africa an Entertainment Company formally registered as Master Blaq Entertainment (PTY) LTD. Siya has more than 10 years of experience in the entertainment industry. He started in the early years of his childhood as a Pantsula Dancer, later did Ballroom & Latin American Dancing till High School where he was also in the School Choir after school he would do DJ Mixes in his bedroom until the demand for bookings got bigger from fans who enjoyed his bedroom mixes, he started playing residencies at clubs when he was in high school, went to study music after high school, where he leant djng, music production, post production, live performance, music business etc. He started a Radio Show called Blue Sky Sessions at Whale Coast FM (2013- 2018). He founded Blue Sky South Africa early in the year 2014 and formerly registered it late in 2015 after the company gained market trust and momentum.
Siya is a well-known and respected member South African Music Scene particularly by many promoters, artists, producers, radio personnel and creatives in the Overberg & Western Cape. Siya has worked through different ventures within the entertainment industry and has even explored more during his operation of Blue Sky South Africa. What makes him unique and to remain relevant and trusted in the whole entertainment industry is his ability to test all established assumptions, versus the reality, new markets, but in revealing easily overlooked social truths which have power to inform and shape success or failure in the market.
Siya enjoys networking with industry peers as well as enjoys growing his contacts database. This allows Siya the necessary growth in the industry as he continues building relations with many prominent and respected industry figures. He also enjoys attending business seminars and workshops and has formed part of many such as Bridges for Music Workshop, NYDA Workshops, Courses and Trainings, Soul Candi Institute of Music where he was a student and later an intern lecture, Red Bull Studio Sessions, Rocking the Daisies, Grootbos Foundation (Siyakhula Entrepreneurship Program), Boiler Room as well as trainings from SEFA, SEDA etc.
He has finally decided with his team after many years of full involvement and engagement in the industry to take the company to the next level and consolidate all the expertise that the company can offer and mostly products and services which are the strong points of the company and decided to offer them to our customers in a very professional quality package.
Siya has a lot of knowledge and industry experience which he has been for the past years been passing to his teams. He has been also working on a series of projects which includes one of Blue Sky South Africa’s biggest event called Ubumnandi Festival which celebrated its 5th Birthday Celebration in the year 2021, it was established in March 2015. Ubumnandi Festival has seen more than 25 000 attendees ever since its establishment. On the last events in December 2021 had more than 2000 attendees overall in 3 Outdoor Festivals in 2 weeks.
During these years when compiling and booking artists for Ubumnandi Festival Lineup, he made contacts with 100’s of Artists which many wanted to sign with the company and be managed by Blue Sky South Africa however at that point we were not signing creatives. We have now started our venture in opening our record label and our talent management and we are soon going to showcase some of Africa’s highly talented, fast-growing artists, models and other creatives (photographers, graphic and clothing designers and content producers etc.
Siya is now currently enrolling part time at Cape Pensisula University of Technology, he is doing his final year Diploma in Entrepreneurship, he plans to use the knowledge and skills he is gaining from studies to add on his personal knowledge and business experience. This will not only help him run a successful company but to be more innovative to come up with more needed solutions that will better the world. Siya strongly believes in Social Entrepreneurship.
“We have a series of projects we are working on that we will be bringing to our clientele as well as our innovative projects to come up with solutions going forward as the world shifts. We have seen a shift in many things in the world and it is time for more social entrepreneurs to take a stand and prepare for the new coming revolution. Let us first start preparing today for the new norm and be the driving force of change, now is the time.” Siyabulela Notwala”