{"id":73791,"date":"2019-01-30T03:16:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T01:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73791"},"modified":"2019-01-30T03:16:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T01:16:32","slug":"george-kalukusha-makes-empawa-africa-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/30\/george-kalukusha-makes-empawa-africa-top-10\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kalukusha makes emPawa Africa top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Getrude Mkandawire: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The country\u2019s acoustic soul\/ folk artist, George Kalukusha, has made it in the top 10 emPawa Africa competition.<\/p>\n

emPawa Africa is a competition spearheaded by Nigerian artist Oluwatosin Oluwolw Ajibade, famously known as Mr Eazi.<\/p>\n

The contest is set to promote, grow independent and emerging talented artists onto the global platform.<\/p>\n

The competition will see the top 10 artists nominated attending an exclusive master class in Cape Town, South Africa, with mentorship and tutorage from Mr Eazi and various artists.<\/p>\n

Kalukusha said he is excited.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy with where my career is going and glad that I will be representing the few Malawians who have always supported me,\u201d<\/em> Kalukusha said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kalukusha, who is also the founder of Pakhonde Acoustic Sessions, has performed on various international platforms.<\/p>\n

Having experienced the journey of an African dreaming to make it big in the music industry, the afro-pop star is the perfect, passionate partner to lead the next wave of African musical talent to international stardom.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll it took for me to start my career was a $1000 music video. Since then, my career has allowed me to tour the world, own a business and employ over 100 people. The real motivation behind emPawa is providing a similar opportunity for emerging artists and mentoring them to become entrepreneurs like myself,\u201d<\/em> Mr Ezi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr Eazi and emPawa, with the support of betPawa, have a mission to support African artistes by equipping them with the right collaboration, industry knowledge and investment.<\/p>\n

On the Pakhonde Acoustic Sessions, Kalukusha, said the platform is aimed at building the creative industry and giving a chance to up and coming musicians to showcase their talents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Pakhonde Sessions, we wish to empower up and coming artists and provide a platform for them. In future, we hope to see collaborations both locally and internationally from these sessions,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nominated alongside Kalukusha on the emPawa Africa top 10<\/a> include Zambian musicians Nemo and Ruth Ronnie and Sadimuma from Tanzania.<\/p>\n

The Empawa Africa project saw over 4,000 entries from Africa that were later narrowed down to 100.<\/p>\n

From 100, the figure was narrowed down to 10.<\/p>\n

Later this year, two overall winners will be selected and invited to perform with Mr Eazi at the Ghana Party in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Getrude Mkandawire: The country\u2019s acoustic soul\/ folk artist, George Kalukusha, has made it in the top 10 emPawa Africa competition. emPawa Africa is a competition spearheaded by Nigerian artist Oluwatosin Oluwolw Ajibade, famously known as Mr Eazi. The contest is set to promote, grow independent and emerging talented artists onto the global platform. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73791","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\/73791","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=73791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73796,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73791\/revisions\/73796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}