Lilongwe-based musician Machuluka, real name Andrew Mphande, has said he has received an overwhelming response from fans since he came out with his Tonga beats.<\/p>\n
The Tonga artist said he will maintain his style of performing in Tonga as part of promoting the Tonga language.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first I was not sure how people would welcome the songs but I can say that so far so good. Actually I have other new songs. Let me also announce that I am working on an album which will be released very soon,\u201d Machuluka said.<\/p>\n
Machuluka was recently in South Africa where he was invited for performances.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am also working very hard to hold more shows in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The youthful musician has been in the limelight since he released the Tonga track \u2018Zowala Za Mwana Wangu\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018Zowala za Mwana Wangu\u2019, is a song which continues to enjoy airplay especially at weddings and engagements and in the track Machuluka speaks volumes of parents, who are excited with the wedding of their child.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people confuse the lyrics. For instance I have heard others saying zovala <\/em>[clothes] and yet it\u2019s zowala <\/em>(wedding). It\u2019s just a simple song where parents are expressing happiness at the wedding of their child,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n So far the artist has managed to record close to eight songs and the other one is \u2018Awakoliyapu\u2019.<\/p>\n He said some people have been asking him as to why he is concentrating much on doing Tonga songs.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are artists like Diamond, who do their songs in Swahili; so, it\u2019s the same with me,\u201d Machuluka said.<\/p>\n Of the eight songs he has recorded, only one, \u2018Homesick\u2019, is in English\u2019, while the rest are in Tonga.<\/p>\n The other songs are \u2018Mwakambanga Boza\u2019, \u2018Wandiphwamuwa\u2019, \u2018M\u2019bali Wangu\u2019, \u2018Ndituza\u2019 and \u2018Vwalako\u2019.<\/p>\n His music career dates back to the time he was a kid when, with friends, they used to make instruments from tins, wires and wood.<\/p>\n \u201cI developed a strong interest in playing instruments after I sat for my Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lilongwe-based musician Machuluka, real name Andrew Mphande, has said he has received an overwhelming response from fans since he came out with his Tonga beats. The Tonga artist said he will maintain his style of performing in Tonga as part of promoting the Tonga language. \u201cAt first I was not sure how people would welcome […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65578","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\/65578","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=65578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65580,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578\/revisions\/65580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}