Success is rumoured to be a lot like cocaine: one taste is all it takes to send you on a Lindsay Lohan-worthy spiral of entitlement and delusions of grandeur. Although his dose has been relatively small, Durban-born folk musician Majozi, known to the government as Nhlanhla Majozi, seems to be unaffected by the negative side effects of sniffing a bit of fame.A graduate of his church choir in Salt Rock and partially self-taught, the soloist has quickly gone from playing to virtually empty clubs to opening for US folk bandThe Lumineers in front of thousands and reaching number one on the national iTunes charts in the singer/songwriter category with his debut EP Marvellous Light.He said: "I didn't expect this kind of success. It' s been my dream but I wasn't consciously building towards the number one spot. It just happened and I'm taking everything as it comes."Unlike many others in the industry, his talent was not ostensibly hereditary nor was he the five-year-old playing Jimi Hendrix in his parents' living room at Christmas."I didn't come from a musical family or anything like that. I just sang in the choir when I was younger and later, at 13, started playing guitar. I got better at it and worse at other things but luckily I've gotten the chance to pursue it as a career," he said.Despite the fact that his star is on the rise, Majozi has become well known for his humility.And that humility is not grounded in a militant need to disbelieve the hype but a very human self-doubt."I'm a nervous guy. I'm not shy or anything, I just worry that I'm not good enough so when I get these calls the first thing I think is 'Flip, I can't do this', but you've always got to try," he said.Consequently, the hardest part of his career has not been the long slog to find a record deal or scrounging together the money to get from one performance to the next."The hardest thing has been me and my own negativity and worry about whether I am good enough. I think as time goes on I'll build confidence," he said.He added that his faith in God and friendships with people such as Gangs of Ballet front man Brad Klynsmith have helped him get through sticky patches.His latest EP, Mountains, will unquestionably entail those doubts gnawing at him again."I don't think people would have expected this kind of album from me.I was listening to a lot of bands like Chvrches (pronounced Churches) and digging that electro vibe. So I headed in that direction. It still has a lot of my old indie folk influence though," he said.Fame is a tricky habit to tame. It feeds your ego while preying on your insecurities, and while Majozi's ego seems well sated, his insecurities may be his Achilles heel.Whether or not he survives the rigours of celebrity, we will have seen an artist who is as human as the rest of us and unafraid to show it.Majozi's EP "Mountains" is available on iTunes...