MUSIC LEGEND!!YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA

FROM bubblegum popstar in the 1980's, to talkshow presenter and host in the new millennium, Yvonne Chaka Chaka is an entertainment icon of South Africa and Africa.

Chaka Chaka first hit the South African music charts as a teenager in 1984 with the explosive hit "I'm in Love with a DJ". The disco sounds - shaped by the producer Sello 'Chicco' Twala - built on the mbaqanga roots of urban South African music, but with a synthesized edge and English lyrics. The style soon became known as 'bubblegum", and Yvonne Chaka Chaka (alongside Brenda Fassi) was to remain at its forefront for much of the 1980's.

Her powerful alto vocals were beautifully showcased on her next hit - the 1988 album Umqombothi, with song of the same title. This partying celebration of African sorghum beer was certainly pop, but grooved closer to a mbaqanga bassline, with a singalong chorus which hooked not only South Africans, but much of Africa.

Genre: mbaqanga

By the late 1980's Umqombothi and Yvonne Chaka Chaka were pan African flavours: she toured extensively in Africa, playing stadium concerts in Nigeria, Kenya and Zaire. Aside from the South African exiles, she was South Africa's primary musical icon in Africa, a legacy she still enjoys today.

Inspired in part by her extensive travels on the continent, she shed her disco image, and restyled in African head-dress and fabric, was repositioned as a "Princess of Africa".

During the 1990's, she continued to tour - and sell albums - in almost every sub-saharan country. She has performed for a multitude of African Heads-of-State, including historic occasions accompanying the emergence of the new South Africa. She is a patron of the "Giving and Sharing" project, a campaign of "indigenous giving and philanthropy", and is involved in a variety of fundraising and benefit causes, notably the Orlando Childrens'Home, and HIV work.

She released the album "Yvonne and Friends" late in 2000, which featured guests artists including Tsepo Tshola, formerly of Sankomota.In 2002, she took on the role of radio and tv presenter and talk show host, consolidating her transformation from "Princess of Africa" to that of a leading businesswoman, entertainer and educator. She is married to a Soweto physician, and is mother to four sons.


By Kinoti Moreen

we should all vote for sauti sol in MTV to win for sura yako,as you see African musician are going far.That is a good example of Africa rise up

N.M.K

Tedy Afro- Ethiopian Songstar

In 2001, Teddy Afro released his second album, Abugida. Several tracks quickly caught the ear of many listeners in Ethiopia - "Halieselassie", a tribute to the late Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I; "Haile, Haile", a single in honor of the Olympic long distance champion Haile Gebrselassie; and "Mona Lisa", a song about the measure of human beauty  courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Afr.o

It is true, Many, Ethiopians ladies are very beautiful while their men are handsome. Why lie? I have been there on different assignments and i almost married one lady 10 years ago. Hahahahahah! majority of them have great skin! Their songs are majorly in Amharic language. I normally listen to the rhythm and the beat notwithstanding the meaning of the song. It ios superb to listen to the beats.

by Edwin Wachie

Juliana Kanyamozi- Sanyu Lyange

This lady is a Tusker Project Fame Judge. Tusker is a project that attracts very much interest all over the East African countries. She is a Ugandan by nationality and says that she inherited her good skin from her mother whose face and body do not correspond to her real age. She does exercises in the morning and eats well thus leaves a stress free life. 








Edwin Wachie