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Suffix & Faith show Boldness in tackling tribalism

The timing to issue the song Yobwata by Suffix and Faith Mussa would not have come at the right time considering that this is voting time and it is not a secret that the politicians have managed to polarise the country by flashing the tribal card.

Before I can comment on the boldness in lyrical package of the track, I want to point out that this sounds like a sequel of the 2016,…

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Namadingo - Soldier Mashup 2 was spoilt

Namadingo – Soldier Mashup 2 was spoilt

Patience Namadingo is trending. If it is not Malawians and Zambians mimicking his hit song Mapulani then he is releasing mashups. We have seen him collaborate with Soldier Lucius Banda in the part one mashup before Billy Kaunda and the Black Missionaries also came on the scene.

I have my misgivings for the second mashup and this is the reason this week I have returned to talk about…

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DNA confuses with UKANADZIWA

Last time I picked DNA, born Daniel Kaliwo, as one of modern musical acts whose music and I asked you to listen to his music and look at the aspect of creativity in terms of coming up with the tune, melody and lyrical package and delivery. Of course, there, I also observed that love theme is his common denominator.

Back in that June of 2017 when I wrote about this, I looked at DNA’s two tracks…

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Bald head Jesus against Faith Mussa

On May 31st this Week and on a Sunday singer and musician Faith Mussa updated his profile picture which gave his fans the all new dreadlocked Che Muphuwa image.

For Faith he simply accompanied the picture with a few words saying ‘[I have] been posting too many old pics in the past few months… I guess it’s time I reveal what’s been hiding under the Hoodie’.

And oh God, over 1000 people…

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Where is Piksy's Sendeza Genre?

Where is Piksy’s Sendeza Genre?

With Gregory Gondwe

We really have to give it up to Piksy, born Evans Zangazanga. Piksy and his friend Nicodemo real name Nicholas Mbonela plucked up unbelievable courage to come onto the music scene with their own genre they called Sendeza analysis through their Machitidwe a Atumwi or was it Sendeza back in in 2008.

The two, trading as Atumwi, decided to be Nthumwi Piksy and the other…

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Covid-19 could do worse with Gigs

Amongst several things associated with politics, death makes the list. Darkness, disease, poverty and misery are the other associates of politics. Not surprising, the danger posed by Covid-19 to our politicians bears nothing.

Whereas for music, most occasions that it will be associated with death is when people gather for funeral rituals and of course dirges, politics has a different story.…

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Gospel or no Gospel for Namadingo

On April 30 around 4:22 PM, singer and musician Patience Namadingo decided to let the cat out of the bag when he vehemently declared, that he is not a gospel musician as the country has been led to believe ever since he cut his musical teeth back in the days.

This is exactly what he wrote on his Facebook page:

“For the very last time the answer is “NO I am not a Gospel Musician. I am just

a…

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Govt. better avail resources for COVID-19 Music

The name Dorothy Shonga rings no bell to music followers in this country. It is because unlike Kell Kay, Tay Grin, Macelba, Janta, Suffix and Boy Hidden, there is nothing musical attached to it.

However, this lady has responded in proactive manner than Government officials by funding a musical production project to a tune of more than K3million to produce a song against havoc causing Coronavirus…

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Covid-19 brings mixed fortunes for musicians

Singers and musicians will have different tales once Covid-19 pandemic is gone.

Local reggae rulers, The Black Missionaries and soldier Lucius Banda and the Zembani Band are hardest hit, considering that their biggest revenue haul comes from live performances. These come in form on corporate or self-arranged events across the country and sometimes across the borders, especially in South Africa…

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Time to pay attention to Elli Njuchi

At 19, Chifuniro Steven Magalasi, christened with showbiz name Elli Njuchi, is exactly where most of his peers would want to be, musically.

He is the 2018 best new act UMP awards winning singer/songwriter in appreciation of the track that catapulted him to fame: Illuminati. Or was it the award of best upcoming act? Or the 2018 UMP Awards Best New Comer? To me, it matters less, all I know is that…

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One and only Kenny Rogers – And Manu Dibango

At the time when the whole world is plagued with Covid-19 one would expect that nothing else would be so compounding as this Corona virus. But no, two musical giants have just passed and one killed by the same virus and the World has even mourned more.

Kenny Kenneth Ray Rogers, singer and musician, who was born back in August of 21st 1938 died this week on 20th March 2020.

Four days later,…

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Gospel has boxed Gwamba’s talent

Duncan Zgambo, the great Malawian rapper known by stage name Gwamba insists that ever since he turned into gospel all his songs are doing remarkably so well, despite people thinking he would lack creativity in gospel material.

He has also done a track called ‘Unatha’ which apparently also tries to disparage his formative creativity in music or better still his career in the secular arena. In the…

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Unpolished diamond that did Maloto Sang'amba

Unpolished diamond that did Maloto Sang’amba

Last weekend Blantyre’s Club 20 Four 7 hosted several performers in what was dubbed the hit-makers show. One of the hits of the moment is Maloto Sang’amba done by a new kid on the block Emmanuel Kambanje, whose showbiz name is Manzy. The song also features his elder brother Wales who calls himself Wale.

Watching the brothers play at the venue at Kameza you could clearly see that the boys have…

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The Billy Kaunda-Lucius Banda Debate

This week, Patience Namadingo was at it again. He released another reggae mashup medley in collaboration with another living music legend, Billy Kaunda.

The moment he did, some evil and shallow minded people decided to make it a case against Billy and Lucius. While others felt Lucius was better others argued it was Billy who was better.

Furthermore, others felt the first two mash up productions…

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The other side of Soldier – Namadingo

Recently, legendary soldier Lucius Banda collaborated with musical innovationist Patience Namadingo to come up with what they called a reggae mash up medley. It is littered with a number of songs that Lucius has recorded over a couple of decades that he has been performing.

While the production is now dominating all entertainment outlets, it has also generated suggestions and accusations from…

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The Unique Oral History of Bob Marley - 4

The Unique Oral History of Bob Marley – 4

I intend to finish exactly in the same way that I opened the first of the four entries that dwelt on the 2017 biography called So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marleyby Roger Steffens by calling it a very unique narrative of who Bob Marley was in the eyes of those friends, relatives, business partners, music brothers and sisters who witnessed his life blossoming before it folded…

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The Unique Oral History of Bob Marley Part 3

Let me this week delay by a week winding up the review of the 2017 book called So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley by Roger Steffens which we have been talking about the past two weeks.

I will start by trying to clear the misconception that suggests that Peter Tosh and Bob Marley never saw each other eye to eye soon after the breakup of the Wailers Band which they co-founded…

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