{"id":24455,"date":"2016-05-18T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=24455"},"modified":"2016-05-18T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T09:40:13","slug":"collabos-working-for-me-dan-lu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/05\/18\/collabos-working-for-me-dan-lu\/","title":{"rendered":"Collabos working for me\u2014Dan Lu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afro pop musician Dan Lufani, better known as Dan Lu, has said he will continue working with different artists as he strives to push his music career higher.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Lu said yesterday that collaborations are working for him and that this was one way of penetrating the international platform faster and at the same time hitting the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Part of Life\u2019 hit maker, who last month performed in England alongside Lulu and Skeffa Chimoto through his Sisqo Productions, has managed to do collaborations with top Nigerian artists K-Cee and Flavour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should say it here that collaborations are working and I am planning to do more. At the moment I have already finalised an audio titled Kumitambo, with Mampi and soon I will be going to Zambia to work on a music video,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Lu collaborated with K-Cee in the song Sweet Banana, which he said is ready and will be launched in September<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will launch Sweet Banana in September and K-Cee will come and I will also go to Nigeria then to South Africa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The singer also said his 1 +1 song which he did with Flavour has been finalised and that it will also be launched once they are done with Sweet Banana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy focus is to hit the top and fly Malawi and Africa\u2019s flag. We can do it as Malawi but we can also push ourselves through these collaborations. At the moment I can go and perform in Nigeria because people know me,\u201d said Dan Lu.<\/p>\n<p>He called for more support from Malawians by among others twitting and downloading his music videos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is talent in the country no doubt about that but we need support through different platforms as it\u2019s done in other countries. Social media platforms are key and so we need to embrace this area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Tay Grin is also benefiting from collaborations. His song \u2018Chipapapa,\u2019 which he collaborated with Nigeria\u2019s 2Baba formerly 2Face is currently doing well on Trace channel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Dan Lu has said he will be holding a \u2018Sweet Banana Night\u2019 at Blue Elephant in Blantyre on May 28, 2016 where he has promised to give out the best of his performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a night of Dan Lufani and Rockers Band. I have called it \u2018Sweet Banana Night,\u2019 because of the \u2018Sweet Banana\u2019 song,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The musician has five albums to his credit namely <em>Shupie, Khazeni, So What<\/em>? <em>No Size <\/em>and <em>Sorry<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afro pop musician Dan Lufani, better known as Dan Lu, has said he will continue working with different artists as he strives to push his music career higher. Dan Lu said yesterday that collaborations are working for him and that this was one way of penetrating the international platform faster and at the same time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24455","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\/24455","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=24455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24462,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24455\/revisions\/24462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}