{"id":32566,"date":"2016-09-27T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T07:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=32566"},"modified":"2016-09-27T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T07:55:57","slug":"miracle-moffat-stuns-mzuzu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/miracle-moffat-stuns-mzuzu\/","title":{"rendered":"Miracle Moffat stuns Mzuzu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully launching her late mother\u2019s album <em>Esther <\/em>in Blantyre and Lilongwe, Miracle Moffat finished the series of the launch shows at Squirrels Park in Mzuzu on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Miracle\u2019s mother Grace Chinga, was no ordinary musician.<\/p>\n<p>Despite coinciding with shows for other big names on the gospel block, who had performances at the Boma Park and Grand Palace Hotel, Miracle proved that she is the next force to reckon with.<\/p>\n<p>If the numbers of the patrons that came and witnessed the show are anything to go by, it is therefore safe to say that Miracle is assured of unwavering support from gospel fans in the North\u2019s commercial capital.<\/p>\n<p>Chairperson for Musicians Union of Malawi (Mum) North Chapter, Dyton Mbewe, hailed people of Mzuzu for extending the love they had for the departed music genius to her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all loved Grace Chinga, and Miracle can only successfully carry on her mother\u2019s legacy through your support. At Mum we have welcomed her, she makes us proud,\u201d Mbewe said.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by Blantyre-based Malimba Band, the young songstress alternated tracks from the new album and her mother\u2019s previous albums with ease.<\/p>\n<p>Though yet to master the art of stage performance, throughout the show Miracle dared not to disappoint the music lovers, she pulled in all her energy and put all her singing and dancing skills on display.<\/p>\n<p>Talk of dancing, her stylish brother Steve Spesho mesmerised the crowd with his antics when he took to the stage to perform three of his songs before paving way for his younger sister.<\/p>\n<p>With support from legends of the microphone like Ethel Kamwendo Banda, King James Phiri and Thocco Katimba, Miracle sent some of the people in the audience into tears when she played her mother\u2019s last production <em>Ndzaulura<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Chinga died in March.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the songs that she ditched out include <em>Wayalula, Esther, Korona, Chimdalitso and Ondikana Pagulu.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully launching her late mother\u2019s album Esther in Blantyre and Lilongwe, Miracle Moffat finished the series of the launch shows at Squirrels Park in Mzuzu on Sunday. Miracle\u2019s mother Grace Chinga, was no ordinary musician. Despite coinciding with shows for other big names on the gospel block, who had performances at the Boma Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32566","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\/32566","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=32566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32570,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32566\/revisions\/32570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}