Brenden Praise and Murdah Bongz Celebrate Grammy Nominations for 'Mysterious Ways Remix'

• Brenden Praise and Murdah Bongz are celebrating their 2025 Grammy nomination for Mysterious Ways Remix
• They collaborated on a soundtrack to the US film The Color Purple, and they were nominated under an intense category
• Mzansi cannot stop praising the two men for their wonderful achievement, which is one of many to come
• Briefly News spoke to Dr Moruti, who was part of the producers of the track, and he shared what he thinks makes the song standout

After South Africans were quite disappointed at this year's Grammy snub, two artists who are up for a gong are in celebratory mode.

Brenden Praise and Murdah Bongz bag Grammy nods

Taking to Instagram, Brenden Praise and Murdah Bongz announced that their hit song Mysterious Ways Remix was announced as one of the contenders at the 2025 Grammy Awards.

The stars worked on a soundtrack to the US musical The Color Purple. The song is contending under the Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.

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Messages of gratitude flow in

Reacting to their Grammy nods, the two stars, who are also very close friends, shared a few words. Brenden said this was not part of his vision board:

"Grammy Nominated Producer wasn’t on my vision board, But I’ll take it!!😂 Honoured to have contributed to the soundtrack with my brothers @murdahbongz & @dr_moruti."

Meanwhile, Murdah Bongz also shared his excitement over the news, saying:

"I wanna thank me for this contribution @brenden_praise and @dr_moruti on the @thecolorpurple soundtrack. Grammy nominated S/O to @gamma, @siphodlam and @gamma.africa for affording MÖRDA (@murdahbongz) a chance to be on this project. The Good Lord Works in Mysterious Ways indeed.

Their other collaborator, Dr. Moruti quite a powerful bible verse on waiting for God's timing.

Brenden Praise and Dr Moruti speak to Briefly News

Briefly News caught up with the artists who worked on the song, Brenden Praise and Dr Moruti. We asked Moruti what he thinks makes the song stand out from the other contenders in the category.

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"I think what makes the Mysterious Ways Remix Stand out is that myself, Mörda and Brenden Praise gave it our Indigenous Elements from South Africa."

For Brenden Praise, he worked on the film as a producer. He shared that music and film are in sync, so his working on a film as an artist was a breeze.

"One of my goals as a producer was to work on films and do some scoring. This was a great Segway to that."

SA celebrates Murdah and Brenden

Fans cannot stop praising the two men for their nominations, with their wives, DJ Zinhle and Mpoomy Ledwaba, also gushing over them.

nolo_le gushed:

"Is everyone aware that we are congratulating the same family every two seconds this year?"

masterpiecesiya said:

"Rebranding yourself was the best move ever! Congratulations 🎊 you are doing the most, and we are ready for more wins. #Sbali to the World."

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mablonog said:

"South Africa to the world, we rise… again and again… because you are “tussen”. Congratulations to our very own, to many more to come."

rumbieblackdiamond noted:

"The way we have been congratulating this family this year just shows how good God is!!!!! Congratulations bestie and hubby @djzinhle you are the queen to the king."

Mysterious Ways wins international nod

In a previous report from Briefly News, the Mysterious Ways Remix soundtrack won an NAACP award.

On Instagram, Murdah congratulated Brenden and their other collaborator, Gamma, on the international award.

Source: Briefly News