Singer and dancer Ellen Kadango said Tuesday she has taken politics seriously, describing it as a calling.<\/p>\n
Kadango showed her interest in politics when she contested for the Lilongwe City South East Constituency by-elections. She was not successful.<\/p>\n
But the artist, who once starred with Lucius Banda and Zembani Band before going solo, said music is now a sidebar.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor now, music is no longer a serious item for me. I only do it during light functions such as rallies. For now, politics is my game because I would want to serve the people in this capacity,\u201d Kadango said.<\/p>\n
She also said performing in secular events has been tough for her as well as other female acts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe industry is not that open enough for female artists doing secular [music]. Again, as artists, there is so much that one invests in music but, at the end of it all, there is little one gets in terms of income,\u201d Kadango said.<\/p>\n
She said, despite not making it during the by-elections in October last year, she was still in politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is my calling, gauging by the progress of groundwork. Actually, I am continuing my father\u2019s legacy,\u201d Kadango said.<\/p>\n
She said youths and women should take part in the development of the country through their participation in politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as 50-50 campaign is concerned, I am into politics because I want to be part of the change. I will actually contest again in the 2019 tripartite elections. I am just young to give up and now that I will contest on a party ticket, it will be easier,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Kadango, who revealed that she will contest on a Democratic People\u2019s Congress ticket, recently held a rally at Kaliyeka School Ground in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n
Kadango, who has one album to her credit titled Nthano <\/em>has shared the stage with several artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Singer and dancer Ellen Kadango said Tuesday she has taken politics seriously, describing it as a calling. Kadango showed her interest in politics when she contested for the Lilongwe City South East Constituency by-elections. She was not successful. But the artist, who once starred with Lucius Banda and Zembani Band before going solo, said music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61454","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\/61454","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=61454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61456,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61454\/revisions\/61456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}