{"id":20828,"date":"2016-03-17T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=20828"},"modified":"2016-03-17T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T10:56:29","slug":"gospel-singer-grace-chinga-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/03\/17\/gospel-singer-grace-chinga-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel singer Grace Chinga dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned gospel singer Grace Chinga died\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0night after a\u00a0short illness.<br \/>\nThe songstress, who had complained for headache and later fainted, was\u00a0pronounced dead on arrival at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in\u00a0Blantyre.<br \/>\nThe singer famed for the hit \u2018Thandizo Langa,\u2019 which was voted the\u00a0Best Song during the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)\u00a0Entertainers of the Year will be buried\u00a0on Saturday\u00a0afternoon at HHI<br \/>\nCemetery in Blantyre.<br \/>\nAccording to veteran musician Wycliffe Chimwendo, the remains of\u00a0Chinga, will\u00a0on Friday\u00a0be taken from College of Medicine at\u00a03pm\u00a0to her\u00a0Full Gospel Church in Chilobwe and that vigil will be at her mother\u2019s<br \/>\nhouse at Malingamoyo in Chimwankhunda.<br \/>\nArts reporter Sam Banda Jnr spoke to Wycliffe Chimwendo\u00a0Bite Wycliffe Chimwendo\u00a0Another gospel musician Thocco Katimba described Chinga\u2019s death as a\u00a0big blow to the nation and the music industry.<br \/>\nBite Thocco Katimba.<br \/>\nChinga was born on June 28, 1978. She\u00a0hailed from Leza Village,\u00a0Traditional Authority Makhuwira in Chikwawa. She is survived by three\u00a0children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned gospel singer Grace Chinga died\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0night after a\u00a0short illness. The songstress, who had complained for headache and later fainted, was\u00a0pronounced dead on arrival at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in\u00a0Blantyre. The singer famed for the hit \u2018Thandizo Langa,\u2019 which was voted the\u00a0Best Song during the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)\u00a0Entertainers of the Year will be buried\u00a0on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828","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=20828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20830,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20828\/revisions\/20830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}