{"id":34873,"date":"2016-11-04T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T08:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=34873"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T08:43:21","slug":"peter-kumilayi-to-launch-album-at-blantyre-cultural-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/11\/04\/peter-kumilayi-to-launch-album-at-blantyre-cultural-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Kumilayi to launch album at Blantyre Cultural Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel musician, Peter Kumilayi, will launch his second album <em>Ndiyimabe Mwa Yesu <\/em>at Blantyre Cultural Centre (BCC) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The artist said yesterday that the 12-track album recorded at Wakankhunda Multimedia by Dick Kankhunda has received an overwhelming response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank God for this project. People have supported me and warmly welcomed my album and I hope it will be the same during the launch,\u201d Kumilayi said.<\/p>\n<p>The launch will be spiced up by several artists among them King James Phiri, Peter Sambo, Limbani Simenti, Khama Khwiliro, Chiko Mulera, Neligo Womens Choir, Khwidzi CCAP Choir and Stevie Wazisomo Muliya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from music, we will also have poetry by Sylvester Kalizang\u2019oma and Joseph Madzedze and we also have<\/p>\n<p>presidential mimickers in Atcheya and Aunt Geti,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His journey started in a choir at St Michaels and All Angels before moving on to perform with St Michaels Praise Team.<\/p>\n<p>After performing with the choirs, Kumilayi decided to go solo releasing his debut album <em>Zafika Povuta <\/em>and now his second Ndiyimabe Mwa Yesu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message that is in this album is basically encouraging Christians to remain faithful and stick to the Lord no matter what challenges they encounter. I have tried as much to give the songs a Malawian and African touch. I have fused in a lot of traditional dances,\u201d Kumilayi said.<\/p>\n<p>The title track <em>Ndiyimabe Mwa Yesu <\/em>is currently enjoying airplay in some of the local radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>He said people should look forward to nothing but the best during the launch adding that he has experience for live acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel musician, Peter Kumilayi, will launch his second album Ndiyimabe Mwa Yesu at Blantyre Cultural Centre (BCC) on Sunday. The artist said yesterday that the 12-track album recorded at Wakankhunda Multimedia by Dick Kankhunda has received an overwhelming response. \u201cI thank God for this project. People have supported me and warmly welcomed my album and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34873","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\/34873","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=34873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34877,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions\/34877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}