Afro-jazz musician Daniel Ngwira has released a track titled Tine Basa that focuses on local artists’s careers.
The song features two of the country’s most successful young musicians Alexio Kawara and Diana Samkange, who have against all odds, managed to gain themselves a reasonable following in music.
“Tine Basa addresses piracy issues, the musician as a role model and need for artists to understand it is their role to keep revellers entertained and at the same time meticulously guarding and exercising self control, as the industry has many temptations,” said Ngwira.
He said he had chosen Kawara to feature on the track because he was a good example of a humble artist who anyone could look up to as a role model. He had also chosen Samkange as she was the woman of the moment who was hardworking and busy on live shows.
In the song the three voices melodiously fuse in an Afro-jazz sound that is fused with a little jit and traditional chimurenga music.
“I sing to touch deep into the hearts of people and this time I want to start by touching musicians so they understand their roles in the society and that success is not an overnight achievement, but they earn it through experience and character,” said Ngwira.
He said he hoped to get as many people as possible to listen and like the message in the song as he had started distributing many copies to commuter omnibus drivers for free so they could play the music for travellers.
He said together with Kawara and Samkange they will hold shows around the country starting end of March beginning at Consession and Mazowe.
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“I wrote this song after realising a lot of musicians tend to live reckless lives, when they make lots of money, but many of them die as paupers,” he said. Ngwira said a lot of local artists disappointed him by agreeing to stoop so low as to become curtain raisers for foreign performers less experienced than them.
He said it was the musicians’ job to stand up and promote their own music.
The 37-year-old musician started music in 2000 at High Density Records under the late Tendai Mupfurutsa.
