{"id":72597,"date":"2018-12-28T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72597"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:06:09","slug":"emmanuel-maseko-ready-for-album-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/emmanuel-maseko-ready-for-album-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Maseko ready for album launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Sam Banda Jnr:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72600\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/emmanuel-maseko.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/emmanuel-maseko-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/emmanuel-maseko-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/emmanuel-maseko.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MASEKO\u2014I am happy with the response<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mzuzu-based musician Emmanuel Maseko has called on people to support artists by buying their original works.<\/p>\n<p>He said musicians are investing a lot in recording albums and that it was saddening that people prefer to buy pirated copies instead of original works.<\/p>\n<p>Maseko will on Tuesday launch his album <em>Mwayenera <\/em>at Squirrels Park.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is not easy as you have to invest a lot of money and composing songs is something that drains a lot of money. So, it does not go down well when people buy pirated copies. I call upon them to support artists by buying original works,\u201d<\/em> Maseko said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On his album <em>Mwayenera<\/em>, Maseko said he is looking forward to the best and that he has received an overwhelming response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am happy with the response I have received so far since I dropped some of the songs. I am looking forward to more and the important thing is to stay focused and remain unique,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The eight-track album has songs such as \u2018Ndimasuleni\u2019, \u2018Thank You God\u2019, \u2018He is the Way\u2019, \u2018Hallelujah\u2019, \u2018We Worship You\u2019, \u2018Ukulu Wanu\u2019, and \u2018He is Risen\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the album on January 1 will be spiced up by performances from Ethel Kamwendo Banda, Favaoured Martha, Andy Seko, Shammah Vocals, Saxess, Eliza Mponya, Grena Phiri, Walusungu Kishombe, Martha Kasambara and Griffin Kaliat.<\/p>\n<p>The album was recorded at CF Studio in Mzuzu by Freedom Munthali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Banda Jnr: Mzuzu-based musician Emmanuel Maseko has called on people to support artists by buying their original works. He said musicians are investing a lot in recording albums and that it was saddening that people prefer to buy pirated copies instead of original works. Maseko will on Tuesday launch his album Mwayenera at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597","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=72597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72601,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597\/revisions\/72601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}