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Slessor Releases Two Singles from Renaissance
Hip-hop artist Slessor will on Wednesday, 29 January, 2014 be releasing two latest singles titled ‘Ndasayina’ (ft. Saint) and ‘Shobizi’, taken from his mixtape titled ‘Renaissance’ due for release on Monday, 03 February, 2014. The two singles will be available for airplay on almost all radio stations across Malawi and will also be available for downloads on malawi-music.com, where…
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Picture of Madonna’s son, David Banda, with Jay Z at the 2014 Grammy Awards
The picture was taken backstage during the 2014 Grammy Awards event on Sunday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Comments pouring out on Facebook
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Diktator’s new single featuring Piksy and Nepman is music to your ears
After he last dropped his 2013 hit single ‘Shasha’, Radio 2 FM dj and rapper, Diktator has released another banger titled ‘Chilibe Season’. The latest song, which he features Piksy and Nepman was produced by GD of Low Budget Records and recorded by Twin at the newly-established 123 Recordz in Chiwembe. ‘Chilibe Season’ is a must…
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Drew Moyo: Releases Dancing With The Fire
Drew Moyo was born in 1982. His music influence is slated from various genres and artists like Oliver Mutukudzi, Kenneth Edmonds, WambaliMkandawire, Arthur Mafokate, Tony Toni Tone, Seal, Dr Dre and Timbaland and David Guetta just to name a few. In 2002, Drew ventured deeper into his music career on a quest to establish himself…
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Komuniq Kyrillos Shooting Music Video for Usalire
Malawian Reggae artist Komuniq Kyrillos has announced that he is currently shooting the music video for his recently released single “Usalire” with Lion Soldier of Black Flames Edutainment. The recording artist said this is in preparation of his first album title Wolakika for Euphonic Sounds under heavyweight producer, Trumel. Speaking in Blantyre, Komuniq also released…
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Buy music from www.malawi-music.com with Airtel Money and stand a chance to win a grand prize of K10,000,000 and K1 million every day in the #Airtel Tipate Promotion
Buy 4 songs for K500 Airtel Money and stand a chance to win a grand prize of K10, 000,000 and K1 million every day in the Airtel Tipate Promotion!!! How to buy Send K500.00 with Airtel Money to nickname MFM144 and use the song CODES as reference. Remember to use your phone number not your…
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Malawi-music.com is now accepting Airtel Money Mobile payments for music downloads
malawi-music.com is pleased to announce that digital Malawian music can now be bought and paid for in local currency using Airtel Money. Making the announcement at the company headquarters on Friday night, company representatives said this was done in order to improve the digital distribution of Malawian music on the local market. At the moment,…
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Peter Mawanga and The Amaravi Band in Glasgow Scotland for Celtic Connections
Peter Mawanga and the Amaravi band are in Glasgow Scotland where they are scheduled for a Celtic Connections performance. “We knew all about Glasgow from about the age of eight, from our history classes where we learned about the great Doctor Livingstone. It’s so exciting to be here and we are so honoured to be…
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Hot New Music December 2013– January 2014: Malawi Music Scene Goes Super Crazy
The past thirty days have been nothing but explosive in the Malawian music industry. Before we even get to talk about the first ever MAM music awards, the music that has been released in the past couple of weeks and the events surrounding the releases have been nothing short of spectacular. If this is anything…
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Junior Cee Releases “Mkazi Opanda Nzeru”: The Junior Cee Project Out in February
Junior C isn’t playing games as he releases a hard hitting single from the upcoming “The Junior Cee Project” mixtape. Mkazi Opanda Nzeru finds the former Likoma Island rapper going hard and delivering a real message over a well-produced trap beat. According to Junior C, the mixtape is finished and will be released first week…
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Gwamba to release Ndiyima Pachulu feat Bucci on 10 Jan 2014
Ndiyima Pachulu is Gwamba’s first release in 2014. This is his second single from his long awaited debut album. ”Ndiyima Pachulu” was recorded and produced by one of the celebrated Producers, Percy Manyozo popularly known as Pro-pee and mastered by Wado. The love song features Bucci who is signed to Transformers Music. The single follows…
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Ill City releases shocking video and mp3 for song “HALAMU”
In the culture of hiphop where every artist is put to a test with every release, its no surprise that sometimes you catch the odd ones that come in to defy the rules of anything else that was there before them. Not saying that hiphop is a young man games, but it definitely is a…
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Lucius Banda Releases “Wabadwa”: A New Christmas song
Lucius Banda started his musical career in the Alleluya Band, but later formed his own band, Zembani under Zembani Music Group (ZMG). He was controversial to Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s regime. He was the first Malawian musician to sing openly against political oppression in Malawi during the decades of one-party rule. In 2010 he released…
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Maskal Releases New Song “The Way You Are”
Maskal aka SingJay has released a new single titled “The Way You Are“. The new song was recorded live and produced in Birmingham, United Kingdom (UK), by Zimbabwean born Sonny N Moyo at Africa Translated Records. The music video for “The Way You Are” video is expected to be released before 2013 ending. The Malawian…
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Lake Of Stars 2014
The Lake of Stars festival for 2014 is scheduled to take place from the 26th of September 2014 to the 28th of September 2014. The venue will be announced early 2014. The festival takes place over three days, set on the palm fringed shores of one of Africa’s largest lakes and featuring artists from Malawi,…
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Johnny Willz Mixtape 6 Out Now
Jay Willz comes back with the 6th installment to the Johnny Willz Mixtapes. The journey From Johnny Willz mixtape 1 to 6 has been a timeline in the life of Tika Mulamba well know as Johnny Willz. In the mixtape 6 first thing you will notice is the work energy that was put in the…
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RIP Nelson Mandela: Musical Tributes To The Anti-Apartheid Hero
Here’s a list of some musical tributes dedicated to the iconic Nelson Mandela who died at 95 this week. Johnny Clegg, “Asimbonanga”: Written as a mix of Zulu and English, the title of this Mandela freedom track is Zulu for “We have not seen him”; at that point, no one had seen Mandela outside of prison…
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Gospel Artist Armstrong renamed Onesimus By Prophet Bushiri
On Monday, 2 December 2013, Malawian gospel singer Armstrong Kalua announced via social sites Twitter and Facebook that he has changed his stage name to Onesimus. Onesimus is a name of Greek origin meaning “useful”. Born Sopani Armstrong Kalua, the artist revealed that the name change was a result of a revelattion from his spiritual…
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Skeffa Sells 7000 CDs In One Weekend!
The past weekend saw Skeffa Chimoto launch his latest album, Chikondi, with unprecedented success. The weekend album launch saw Skeffa performing in sold out venues in Zomba, Blantyre and Lilongwe as fans everywhere scrambled to sample the latest from the Chinamuluma Chokuda hitmaker. A spellbound Skeffa noted: “I am short of words. Malawians have given…
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Big Brother C.O (Code Sangala) takes it back to the African roots in new album
When former Big Brother Africa representative C.O and his younger brother first emerged on the scene with their debut album Tradistic Soul (recording as a group Kaprintiya) not too many people fully understood what they were really meaning. C.O and his brother both coming from a deep history of R&B and soul music (remember C.O…
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Evison Matafale & The Black Missionaries: A Brief History
Evison Matafale A musician of international repute, Matafale was born in 1969 and he died in Police custody in the November of 2001. He is the founder of The Black Missionaries Band. Matafale appeared on the music scene in 1999 with the release of Kuyimba 1 which was followed by Kuyimba 2 in 2000. In…
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Kenny Klips tops the DJs in Blantyre in the Chill DJ Battle.
F1 Kenny Klips took the first spot in 2013 Chill DJ competition on Friday night 25th October 2013 in Blantyre at a packed Blue Elephant nightclub with DJs Mbuzi (Joy Radio), Joey (Power 101FM) and Dude The Smasher (MIJ FM) taking second,third and fourth places respectively in an entertaining evening that featured inspired 15 minute…
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Barry One Releases Footprints
Legendary rapper BarryOne has released a new album, “Footprints”, that traces his journey as a hip-hip artist justifying the many titles he has earned through the years. The album features collaborations with hoarse-voiced Marco Sadiki, Armstrong, Bucci, Khama Khwiliro, Maskal, Stitch Fray, DNA, Kalista, Third Eye, Black Thunder, Gwamba, Young Kay, Cyclone, Piksy and GD.…
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe Join Sunbird Music Sand Festival
According to festival coordinator Lucius Banda, the Sand Festival which is scheduled fro Mangochi from October 4 to October 6, last week welcomed self-styled Masuku’s from Mozambique and two Zimbabwean artists – Nikk and songstress Pamhidzai Tracy Mbirimi better known as Pah Chihera. Nikk plays urban music and Pah Chihera performs Afro-Jazz and traditional music.…
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MAM Honours Female Musicians
The Musicians association of Malawi Womens Desk held a fundraising dinner dance at the Capital Hotel Marquee in Lilongwe on Friday 30 August 2013. The event was graced with the presence of the Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Culture Rachael Mazombwe Zulu. Master of ceremonies at the event was recent Big Brother Africa: The Chase…
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C.O Gets Closer To Release Date For His Album SOLO
Code Sangala has had a storied journey as an artist, T.V personality and all round good guy. He co-founded Kapirintya with his brother Shadreck aka “Shadre” and released their critically acclaimed debut album “Kwathu nku Ndirande” in 2001 which spawned the hit singles “Kwathu ku Ndirande”, “Ma Kwacha” and “Naliyera”. In 2003, Kapirintya released a…
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