{"id":240463,"date":"2026-08-06T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-dj-siya-from-decks-to-centre-stage\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:50:28","slug":"namibia-dj-siya-from-decks-to-centre-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-dj-siya-from-decks-to-centre-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Dj Siya &#8211; From Decks to Centre Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>DJ Siya&#8217;s music journey reads like a fairytale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">For years, Alexander Sikalumbu entertained crowds in nightclubs and at social functions, spinning the records of Namibia&#8217;s biggest stars. Then he made a bold move &#8211; he stepped out from behind the decks and became the star himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Today, DJ Siya is one of the most sought-after artists in the country. The towering gentle giant with the deep, husky voice, who once hyped up dance floors, now uses that same voice to thrill ever-growing crowds at live&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060028.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Siya&#8217;s music journey reads like a fairytale. For years, Alexander Sikalumbu entertained crowds in nightclubs and at social functions, spinning the records of Namibia&#8217;s biggest stars. Then he made a bold move &#8211; he stepped out from behind the decks and became the star himself. Today, DJ Siya is one of the most sought-after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,9881,55067,4706,724,257,40339,254,4281],"class_list":["post-240463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-centre","tag-decks","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-siya","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}