After being announced as the winner of the sixth season of Idols South Africa in 2010, Elvis Blue spent the next few years consistently on and around the English-language pop charts. 2013 saw him take a bold step in the opposite direction by releasing his first-ever Afrikaans LP. Not only did Blue subsequently become the first Afrikaans artist to scale the Top Ten of the iTunes Store chart, but Afrikaans also went on to win him Best Male Artist and Album of the Year at 2014's Ghoema Music Awards.