{"id":9915,"date":"2015-10-08T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2015-10-08T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T09:01:07","slug":"zambians-digo-ready-for-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/10\/08\/zambians-digo-ready-for-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambian\u2019s Digo ready for showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia\u2019s artist Digo of \u2018Amalira Ndine Gong\u2019a\u2019 fame is in the country to help Malawi\u2019s Godrey Chinzeka aka Super Boy launch his debut album titled Angozo.<\/p>\n<p>Digo, whose real name is Godfrey Tembo, arrived in the country last weekend ahead of the Angozo album launch which starts on Mother\u2019s Day eve at Zembani Lodge in Balaka before taking it to Salima\u2019s River Side on Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The other shows will take place at Culture Club in Kasungu, Joe\u2019s Motel in Mchinji and Tilipano Leisure Centre in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, who has taken on board the producer of the hit \u2018Gong\u2019a,\u2019 DJ Pasta and Virus Monsanto, said fans should brace for exciting performances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am here to entertain my fans. I am ready to give them what they want. This is an opportunity for some of my fans to see me,\u201d said Digo.<\/p>\n<p>The 21- year old artist revealed that this is not the first time to perform in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGong\u2019a means \u2018Nkhwangwa\u2019 or not so good looking woman. The song has got a strong message of comfort. I am comforting a lady who is heartbroken and thinks she cannot be loved by anymore.\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Promoter Wachipeta Mkandawire said they decided to bring the artist in time for fear of disappointing fans in the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might be aware that it\u2019s not easy for most Malawians to trust you these days when you are holding shows and an international artist from abroad is involved unless they see him or her. Now we are saying that the artist is already here in Malawi and ready for the show,\u201d said Mkandawire.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the artists Soldier Lucius Banda of Zembani Band, Sam Simakweli, Nepman, Lambanie Dube, Wendy Harawa, Shozie, Wachipeta Mkandawire are some of the artist to perform at all venues.<\/p>\n<p>Super Boy is launching his debut album after releasing more singles including \u2018Kumbukani Anali Mwana.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia\u2019s artist Digo of \u2018Amalira Ndine Gong\u2019a\u2019 fame is in the country to help Malawi\u2019s Godrey Chinzeka aka Super Boy launch his debut album titled Angozo. Digo, whose real name is Godfrey Tembo, arrived in the country last weekend ahead of the Angozo album launch which starts on Mother\u2019s Day eve at Zembani Lodge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9915","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\/9915","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=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9921,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/9921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}