Rasta The Artist whose real name is Lebani Sirenje is a Zimbabwe born paint artist who is famous for his controversial portraits of celebrities which many say the don’t resemble the artists he paints. Rasta The Artist specialises mostly in portraits of dead celebrities.
Rasta has painted a number of celebrities that includes late struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, current South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa, Springboks captain Siya Kolisi, news anchor Vuyo Mbuli and musicians Lundi Tyamara, HHP, Prokid and Mandoza.
In some of his drawings, people criticized him a lot that he is not drawing people exactly as they are.
After South Africans learnt about the death of the former and last apartheid president in South Africa FW De Klerk, people called on Rasta the artist to draw the former president.
He finally drew him and people seems disappointed because they thought he won’t draw him this nice.