{"id":22379,"date":"2016-04-12T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=22379"},"modified":"2016-04-12T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:48:05","slug":"chrissie-kamthunzi-set-to-celebrate-20-years-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/04\/12\/chrissie-kamthunzi-set-to-celebrate-20-years-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrissie Kamthunzi set to celebrate 20 years in music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s Kenya-based veteran gospel singer Chrissie Kamthunzi has said she is ready for the launch of her latest album Angathe to be held at Robins Park in Blantyre on May 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Angathe <\/em>is Kamthunzi\u2019s eighth album. The other albums she has released are <em>Kuunika<\/em>, <em>Zikomo<\/em>, <em>M\u2019khale Woyamba, Wokondedwa<\/em>, <em>Mbuye Wanga<\/em>, <em>Women of Africa <\/em>and <em>Asante Bwana<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank God for giving me this talent and opening doors for me. It\u2019s been a long time since I performed in Malawi. I can\u2019t wait to get on stage. The launch will be huge because I am also celebrating 20 years in music since I became solo,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kamthunzi revealed that she already launched the album at Hope of Glory Church in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am inviting everyone to this launch and I have added seasoned gospel musicians on the menu which include Wycliffe Chimwendo, Ethel Kamwendo Banda, Allan Ngumuya, Eliza Kachali Kaunda and Ndirande Anglican Voices. We also have other up and coming musicians,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Kamthunzi released an album was in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>She said her latest album is a continuation of a message she delivered in her previous album <em>Asante Bwana <\/em>which she launched in Nairobi in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>She described <em>Angathe <\/em>as a praise and worship album which is exalting God.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the songs in the 10-track album include\u201a \u2018Chibonga\u2019 \u2018Chanu,\u2019\u201a\u2018Woyera,\u2019 \u2018Mchere,\u2019 \u2018Jobu,\u2019and \u2018Alemekezeke.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s Kenya-based veteran gospel singer Chrissie Kamthunzi has said she is ready for the launch of her latest album Angathe to be held at Robins Park in Blantyre on May 1, 2016. Angathe is Kamthunzi\u2019s eighth album. The other albums she has released are Kuunika, Zikomo, M\u2019khale Woyamba, Wokondedwa, Mbuye Wanga, Women of Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22379","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\/22379","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=22379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22383,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379\/revisions\/22383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}