{"id":15807,"date":"2016-01-06T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T07:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=15807"},"modified":"2016-01-06T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T07:39:58","slug":"all-set-for-judy-boucher-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/06\/all-set-for-judy-boucher-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"All set for Judy Boucher concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"judy-boucher\"<\/a>Musician Lucius Banda popularly known as Soldier has said all is set for reggae and R&B singer Judy Boucher\u2019s concert on Valentine\u2019s Day at Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n

Lucius, who is also the Sand Music Director, said on Tuesday that having brought in Jamaican artist Busy Signal during the Sunbird Sand Music Festival last year and South African Trademark famed for the hit \u2018Shumaya\u2019 which particularly targeted the current generation, it was now time to reach out to the older generation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coming in of Busy Signal challenged us to do more and as we said people should just watch the space. We however, did not want to remain quiet hence coming in with some shows, we started with South Africa\u2019s Trademark but this was targeting the youth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lucius said the Judy Boucher concert was strictly targeting the older generation and that the concert would rekindle the past memories.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe concert is confirmed. Actually I have the contract with me. She will be coming with a nine piece band known as All Nations and let me put it clear that she will perform live,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lucius said they were still working on the local acts who will warm up the stage for Judy Boucher.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will come back to you as regards the local artists because we are trying to have artists who will not be far from Judy\u2019s set,\u201d said the \u2018Son of a Poor man,\u2019 hit maker.<\/p>\n

Born in St Vincent in the Caribbean, Boucher\u2019s first solo song \u2018Dreaming of a Little Island,\u2019 was a hit in the reggae charts in 1985.<\/p>\n

The singer is also best known for her international hit single \u2018Can\u2019t Be With You Tonight,\u2019 which reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1987.<\/p>\n

According to available information, after being in her brother\u2019s band Judy Jack and the Beanstalk, Boucher later became a solo artist.<\/p>\n

Her music career took a giant step around in 1970. In 1985, Felix Da Silva, a local songwriter, wanted a singer to cover his songs and Boucher was able to record several of them, including \u2018Dreaming of a Little Island,\u2019 which enjoyed the number one slot in the reggae charts and was subsequently used as the Jamaica Tourist Board\u2019s theme tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musician Lucius Banda popularly known as Soldier has said all is set for reggae and R&B singer Judy Boucher\u2019s concert on Valentine\u2019s Day at Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe. Lucius, who is also the Sand Music Director, said on Tuesday that having brought in Jamaican artist Busy Signal during the Sunbird Sand Music Festival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15819,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions\/15819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}