African Afro
pop Jazz Queen Rocks Bindura
Real
name: Shamiso. The Zimbabwean singer-songwriter is one of the most popular
new-generation artists to emerge from Africa. She released her sophomore album,
last year to immense critical acclaim. The Bindura-based artist is renowned for
her fusion of contemporary Jazz sound, pop and reggae with traditional melodies.
We are in
a world defined by all manner of awards and competitions to be a super star,
the things that define how many opportunities an artists will accessible to
such as concerts, brand endorsements etc. Therefore music genres and
categorisation of sounds is here to stay. The best we can do is use this
machinery to highlight new good music coming from Africa
For
Shamiso the Afro Pop Jazz Music genre is in her blood, she doesn’t need to
prepare for concert because the can blast wherever she is.
Her idols
are Zahara
who never
before has an African Gospel song from a previously unknown artist become a
world hit. In 2011 Zahara (born as Bulelwa Mkutukana ) released her debut album
Loliwe, which proved to be a big success; it went platinum in 13 days and went
double platinum after just 17 days, selling over 100,000 copies in South Africa
And Les Nubian who is of the group of Paris based duo originally
from Chad has been around for some time. Any Kenyan fans of the
Capital Fm’s show ‘The Soul Lounge’ by Terry Bellow that came on Saturdays from
5pm – 7pm would remember that Terry never failed to feature a song or two by
the group.
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