{"id":3882,"date":"2015-06-10T08:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T08:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2015-06-10T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T08:29:57","slug":"favoured-martha-readies-for-double-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/06\/10\/favoured-martha-readies-for-double-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Favoured Martha readies for double launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having received an overwhelming response with her second album titled <em>Yehova Musavomeleze<\/em>, gospel singer Martha Pingasa popularly known as Favoured Martha has said she will launch a CD and a DVD for the album.<\/p>\n<p>The Musician Union of Malawi (Mum) vice president said she has been forced to launch a double having received tremendous support from the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have sold so many copies with my second album, I never saw this coming but I just want to thank God for the talent.<\/p>\n<p>The support I receive from people continues to motivate me to compose more mature songs,\u201d said the singer, who rose to fame performing with her colleague Mwayi Kalolokesya as Favoured Sisters before going solo.<\/p>\n<p>The award winning songstress who was among the artists that performed during Apostle Enesia Chitheka Lewis\u2019 fundraiser at Comesa Hall in Blantyre last Friday said the launch starts on June 20 at Gymkhana Club in Zomba before dating Robin\u2019s Park in Blantyre on June 21 and then Sheaffer ICA Marquee in Lilongwe on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the artists set to perform during the launch include Prophets of Vision, Princess Chitsulo, Grace Chinga, Ethel Kamwendo Banda, Allan Chirwa, Thocco Katimba, Limbani Simenti, Kamuzu Barracks Gospel Singers, Mlaka Maliro, Evance Meleka, Peter Uyu Mulangeni, Khama Khwiliro, Maggie Mangani and The Great Angels Choir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a different launch and people should brace to see something different and exciting but more importantly it will be a time for people to sample the songs and be ministered to,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Favoured Martha\u2019s album has 10 songs and they include \u2018Ababa Musabvomeleze,\u2019 \u2018Ondikonda Ndinu,\u2019 \u2018Yehova Mbusa Wanga,\u2019 \u2018Amandikonda,\u2019 \u2018Ndine Odala,\u2019 \u2018Osunga Moyo,\u2019 \u2018Uko Kumwamba,\u2019 \u2018Mau Otsiliza,\u2019 and \u2018Zochimwa pa mtanda.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The album was recorded at Groove Magic Studio in Blantyre by renowned producer and musician Joseph Tembo.<\/p>\n<p>The singer\u2019s first solo album was <em>Ondikonda Ndili Naye.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having received an overwhelming response with her second album titled Yehova Musavomeleze, gospel singer Martha Pingasa popularly known as Favoured Martha has said she will launch a CD and a DVD for the album. The Musician Union of Malawi (Mum) vice president said she has been forced to launch a double having received tremendous support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","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\/3882","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=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}