JAMES BROWN VISITS ZAMBIA - 1970
American soul music super star James Brown visited Zambia in December 1970 and performed two shows, one in the newly opened Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka and the other at Dag Hamarsjoeld stadium in Ndola.
Check this link about his show in Lusakatimes online publication on 09 March 2018:
'https://www.lusakatimes.com/.../james-brown-conquered.../'
caitlin De Ville,zambian electric violinist
Hennie Bekker (born 1934) is a Juno-nominated,[1] Zambian-born composer, arranger, producer and keyboardist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His work includes jazz fusion, film scoring, new-age[2] and techno. Bekker won a Juno Award for his work with techno-driven trio BKS.
Bekker composed, arranged (in the case of the public domain classical works), and performed the soft melodies and the nature-driven environmental music on the first 14 albums of Dan Gibson's Solitudes - Exploring Nature With Music series, including the 1989 best-selling, quadruple-platinum Harmony. He was named "one of the most prolific and successful figures in contemporary Canadian pop music"[3] by Billboard . Over a period of more than sixty years, Bekker has recorded over 60 albums, most recently on his own Toronto, Ontario-based Abbeywood Records label. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennie_Bekker
Rikezo Makuyu Ililonga a.k.a Rikki Ililonga was born on February 9, 1949 in Zambezi District of Northwestern Province. Rikki Ililonga is a psychedelic rock musician who gained prominence as a member of the Zam-rock band Musi-O-Tunya in the 1970's.
The band released an album DARK SUNRISE an anthology of Zam-rock, the first psychedelic rock independently released in Zambia & their debut album WINGS OF AFRICA & follows Ililonga's solo career, with his ZAMBIA & SUNSHINE LOVE albums. DARK SUNRISE is the definitive document that both musically & prose. Dark Sunrise contains 32 tracks that can be distilled to simple description driving music characterized by James Brown's raw funk, combined with the fuzzy guitar sounds of Jimmy Hendrix & Bob Dylan cranked in his heydays. The majority of their works are in English, but this unique psychedelic rock/blues/rhumba/folk/funk the likes of which has never been heard of outside Zambia's borders.
The realms of western influenced African is consistently dominated by such powerhouse names as Fela Kuti, Victor Uwaifo & other West African legends whose 60's & 70's recordings have been reissued.
Rikki Ililonga's solo work shows even more powerful & subdued side. The songs mostly in English contains Silozi, Chinyanja & Bemba. The genius of Multi instrumentalist Rikki Ililonga's charismatic presence & unparalleled musicality coupled with his ability to pen deeper lyrics than most in genre & Musi-O-Tunya's transcendent ability to deal in difficulty traditional Zambian rhythms, deep funk & unrestrained fuzz rock.
In Picture: Rikki Ililonga front preforming at Independence Stadium in 1980 with Larry Maluma at the back.
Bottom: Rikki Ililonga with Emmanuel Jaggari Chanda in a recent photo. Rikki Ililonga resides in Midtjylland Denmark .
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ALICK NKHATA – ZAMBIA’S PIONEER BROADCASTER
Alick Nkhata (1922–1978) was a Zambian musician, freedom fighter and broadcaster from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. He was very instrumental in the set up of early radio broadcasting in Zambia and was one of the early broadcasters for local programs in the 1950s. He was also a member of a music band of the 1950s called the Lusaka Radio band which turned to become the Big Gold Six band.
"Shalapo" and "Maggie" are some of the songs credited to his name. Unfortunately during the October 1978 raid in Mkushi by Rhodesian forces on Zimbabwean guerilla fighter camps, Alick Nkhata was caught in the cross-fire and was accidentally attacked. The Rhodesian forces mistook him and other farmers who had gathered doing their normal marketing business for guerilla fighters and were attacked. Alick Nkhata road in Lusaka is named after him.