{"id":50899,"date":"2017-07-26T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=50899"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:25:00","slug":"tay-grin-off-to-ireland-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/07\/26\/tay-grin-off-to-ireland-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Tay Grin off to Ireland, United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After his performances in United States of America, Iceland and South Africa recently, Tay Grin has more assignments on his table.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, he is set to perform in Ireland and England.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Chipapapa\u2019 star left Tuesday for Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to fly Malawi\u2019s flag outside once again. My fans in Ireland and England should expect nothing but fireworks,\u201d said the award-winning artist.<\/p>\n<p>Tay Grin said he wants to do more this year and that performances outside the country were on his menu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fire everywhere, our music has to be known all over. Performances in Ireland and England are part of the world tour which has seen me performing in Iceland and South Africa as well as United States of America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tay Grin, well-known as Nyau King, got a perfect send-off when on Saturday he was recognised by elders in his home village in Mponela, Dowa.<\/p>\n<p>The chiefs in Mponela are promoting safe motherhood and they organised nyau dances where they confirmed Tay Grin as Nyau King.<\/p>\n<p>The musician said he will continue promoting culture through his music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels good to be Malawian and I am proud of it. I am humbled by the gesture by the elders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The artist said he came back to Malawi after his exploits in United States of America, Iceland and South Africa for a breather as well as complete a number of projects.<\/p>\n<p>He started the world tour last month.<\/p>\n<p>In his previous outings, apart from the performances, Tay Grin \u2013 as ambassador for HeForShe &#8211;also raised money for girls in the country that will be used to buy reusable sanitary pads.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tay Grin has added another international artist to a list of musicians he has collaborated with.<\/p>\n<p>The artist has done a song with Nigeria\u2019s Ric Hassani titled \u2018Mama\u2019 which also features beat maker Sonyezo.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, Tay Grin has collaborated with Buffalo Souljah (Zimbabwe), Gal Level (Namibia), DJ Waxxy (Nigeria), Sway (UK), Brick &amp; Lace (Jamaica), Naeto C (Nigeria), Ice Prince (Nigeria), 2face (Nigeria), Wahu (Kenya) and Nameless (Kenya).<\/p>\n<p>The others are Double HP (South Africa), Lira (South Africa), Scar (Botswana), Petersen (Zambia), Kmillian (Zambia), Vee (Botswana), Stagga (Botswana), Hamoba (Zambia), Slap Dee (Zambia), DA Les and Ishmael (South Africa), Orezi (Nigeria) and Vanessa Mdee (Tanzania).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his performances in United States of America, Iceland and South Africa recently, Tay Grin has more assignments on his table. This time around, he is set to perform in Ireland and England. The \u2018Chipapapa\u2019 star left Tuesday for Ireland. \u201cI am excited to fly Malawi\u2019s flag outside once again. My fans in Ireland and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50899","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\/50899","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=50899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50903,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50899\/revisions\/50903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}