Judith Daines Wambura Mbibo aka Lady Jaydee aka "Binti Machozi" (owner of Machozi Band) started singing in church at the age of 7 and in the mid 1990s she was a member of the Afro Reign group. It was not until 2001 when she released her first solo album titled “Machozi” which crowned her Tanzanian Best Female Artist in 2001. She has continued winning numerous awards in and out of Tanzania including the most recent awards in South Africa during the Channel O Video Music Awards Best. She has recorded with a number of artists including Samba Mapangala (Congo), Chameleone (Uganda), Mad Ice (Uganda / Tanzania), Matonya (Tanzania) and Mina Nawe (South Africa) amongst others. Some of her hit songs include : Yahaya, Joto Hasira featuring Professor Jay and Wangu featuring Mr.Blue.
This is about African music and how it has grown and gained mass support from audiences all around the globe. It is a notion that African Music is all about education but this is not entirely true.Africans have now started incorporating more modern aspects and styles in production making it entertaining surplus to communicating our culture.
Friday, 10 October 2014
LADY JAYDEE: Tanzanian queen of R&B.
Judith Daines Wambura Mbibo aka Lady Jaydee aka "Binti Machozi" (owner of Machozi Band) started singing in church at the age of 7 and in the mid 1990s she was a member of the Afro Reign group. It was not until 2001 when she released her first solo album titled “Machozi” which crowned her Tanzanian Best Female Artist in 2001. She has continued winning numerous awards in and out of Tanzania including the most recent awards in South Africa during the Channel O Video Music Awards Best. She has recorded with a number of artists including Samba Mapangala (Congo), Chameleone (Uganda), Mad Ice (Uganda / Tanzania), Matonya (Tanzania) and Mina Nawe (South Africa) amongst others. Some of her hit songs include : Yahaya, Joto Hasira featuring Professor Jay and Wangu featuring Mr.Blue.
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