Some quarters have come out to voice their concern over prolonged auctions during gospel album launches.<\/p>\n
It has become a common practice among gospel artists that, when they are launching albums, an auction has to take place.<\/p>\n
The auctions take a long time, thereby eroding the time for performances.<\/p>\n
It was the same scenario on Sunday when gospel singer Phalyce Malick Mang\u2019anda returned to the stage to launch her third album Mangani Malamba. <\/em><\/p>\n There was a prolonged auction that left some people disappointed.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not against the auctions, but they have to be done in an orderly manner. We pay mostly not for auctions but to enjoy the performances. In most cases, we end up not being satisfied because of time,\u201d said Mercy Soko, a gospel fan.<\/p>\n Soko said they failed to enjoy the performance of Miracle Chinga Moffat due to time limitations.<\/p>\n Chinga, who was one of the curtain raisers during the launch, only managed to perform two songs with the third \u2018Nzaulura\u2019 ending prematurely as time was up and venue owners switched off the lights.<\/p>\n Another gospel fan, Bright Segula, said he has been patronising different gospel concerts and that he is fed up with prolonged auctions.<\/p>\n \u201cI know this is part of raising money but it\u2019s too much. Maybe they can be having auctions earlier so that people can enjoy non-stop performances,\u201d Segula said.<\/p>\n With several gospel shows registering low patronage of late, Mang\u2019anda\u2019s launch received a fair audience.<\/p>\n Mang\u2019anda said she did not anticipate such an audience.<\/p>\n \u201cI am thankful to God for everything. Having been out of the stage for some time, I did not know I would get such support. This has motivated me to go on and, more importantly, I want to take my music to the world and minister the word of God in all corners of the world,\u201d Mang\u2019anda said.<\/p>\n But the singer failed to give people more songs as she had run out of time and that was also a result of the auction that took place earlier.<\/p>\n \u201cI planned to do six songs but I managed five, which was not bad\u2014 but it was all because time was running out,\u201d Mang\u2019anda said.<\/p>\n The singer showed energy on stage during her performance. During her performance, she dished out songs such as the title track \u2018Mangani Malamba\u2019.<\/p>\n However, gospel artists need to move out of their comfort zone and become creative with their compositions as some of them have become lazy by relying heavily on hymn songs.<\/p>\n Other acts that performed during the launch include Marvellous Deeds, King James Phiri and Francis Khembo.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are happy to have been part and parcel of this launch. People came to support her and this is good, taking into consideration that the situation has not been that healthy of late when it comes to patronage,\u201d Marvellous Deeds said.<\/p>\n Marvellous Deeds\u2014 the trio of Francis Phiri, Weston Chipwaila and Abel Sanena\u2014 also had their share, performing songs such as \u2018Chimwemwe Changa\u2019 and \u2018Back to Sender\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some quarters have come out to voice their concern over prolonged auctions during gospel album launches. It has become a common practice among gospel artists that, when they are launching albums, an auction has to take place. The auctions take a long time, thereby eroding the time for performances. It was the same scenario on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55771","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\/55771","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=55771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55774,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55771\/revisions\/55774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}