Blantyre-based artist Khuza Rampi will this Saturday take his artwork to New Village House in Blantyre where top of it all will be a double launch of his album titled Nyimbo.<\/p>\n
The launch will see Rampi who prides in sharing a stage with late Evison Matafale coming face to face with other musicians including Katelele Ching\u2019oma, veteran Giddes Chalamanda, Prince Yasin Jenala, Sid Muyaya and Matusa.<\/p>\n
His album Nyimbo was recorded at Ralph Records by Blessings Munyonga and has 10 songs.<\/p>\n
Rampi said he decided to launch a double because of the response he has received from the people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe response on the songs in my second album has been overwhelming.<\/p>\n
This is why I decided to go for a double. I just want to call upon people to come in large numbers to experience my live performance. It is even a good platform as we have a variety of musicians on board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Some of the songs people are expected to sample in his album include \u2018Chidebe,\u2019 \u2018Sikusinja ndi Gwenembe,\u2019 \u2018Musakadye Nokha,\u2019 and \u2018Kunchezo.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cActually the DVD has bonus tracks including \u2018Ukadadziwa Siukadatero,\u2019 which I featured Khozie Masimbe and this songs is in my previous album. I will perform live with Super Boys Band and we have been having massive rehearsals,\u201d said the artist.<\/p>\n
Rampi seems to be taking his art seriously as having started with music; he has also expanded his ground and today also owns Atland Painters and Decorators which among others produces paper necklaces.<\/p>\n
He admits that his debut album Nzafe Nzawole? <\/em>did not do well on the market but he attributes this to poor promotion.<\/p>\n \u201c I took my time working on these songs and I have loved composing them and I am hopeful that people will also love the songs and enjoy the message therein,\u201d said Khuza revealing that the songs are currently enjoying airplay in some of the local radio stations.<\/p>\n With the music industry flooded by many upcoming musicians, Rampi says he is ready with his new album which saw him being in the studio for close to six months.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not stopping here, we will have more shows and actually I am looking at going for a countrywide tour with funds permitting,\u201d said Rampi who had a stint with Zomba based group Freedom Band.<\/p>\n Currently working for Sunbird Mount Soche in Blantyre as a painter and decorator, the artist did painting and decoration at Soche Technical College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blantyre-based artist Khuza Rampi will this Saturday take his artwork to New Village House in Blantyre where top of it all will be a double launch of his album titled Nyimbo. The launch will see Rampi who prides in sharing a stage with late Evison Matafale coming face to face with other musicians including Katelele […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5247","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\/5247","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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}