Letshego Mokgeledi better known as Scavy Luv is an up and coming kwaito musician. Born and raised in Bloemfontein, he is a multi-talented individual who is a prominent figure head in the kwaito and music scene in the Free State, he’s an individual who forever strives to make, write, produce and perform music that’s of the highest quality. From a young age Scavyluv has always had an affinity and passion for kwaito music and some of his early influences were kwaito greats Mdu and Zola. Scavyluv began his career in 1998.In 2002 he choreographed and danced for a dance group called ‘Choyz’ which was signed under Universal Records and toured around the country with prominent artists such as the famous kwaito acts Kabelo, Magesh and various other artists signed under Universal. In late 2002 he launched his solo career and began writing and recording his own music and worked with Bobby Johnson who’s produced for artists such as Kabelo aka ‘Bouga Luv’ and Brenda Fassie just to name a few, it’s also during this time that he developed a love for producing his own music.
In 2007 he signed a publishing deal with Sheer Publishing, and would later on in his career complete his studies as a Sound Engineer. During 2011/2012 Scavyluv began working at kovsie fm to produce and host a Kwaito music specialty radio show called ‘Kwai-Biz’ with Baksmonate, which had an average of ± 40 000 listeners tuning in weekly. Scavyluv’s most notable achievements to date, include performing at the MACUFE and ‘June 16 Soweto Uprising Rally’ at Soccer City, sharing the stage with the likes of Thandiswa mazwai, Ntando etc.
In 2011 Scavy Luv released a mixtape called ‘Custom Made’ in which he also mixed and mastered himself and was sold from the back of his car boot and it was also available at Rebel Music stores and was number one on the top selling cd’s under the category “ethnic”. His songs have received massive air-play on radio stations around the country such as Lesedi fm and Yfm, and his singles ‘Monate-holic’ and ‘Wa-timana’ peaked at the number one spot on Yfm’s kwaito hot99 chartz . Scavy Luv has recently shot a music video for his song “Monate-Holic” and the music video will soon be on TV