Wednesday, December 25, 2013

SAY A WORLD WIDE PRAYER THIS CHRISTMAS FOR SUPER-TALENTED ZAHARA AND ALL OTHER YOUNG SOUTH AFRICANS

1.       On this Christmas I present to you once more the only person I have known to possess the powers of merging and then positing on one piece of art nothing but triumvirate (or even more  multi-sensual) effects like melody, matching vocal timbre, lyrics, facials, etc.


2.       This feat she has apparently succeeded to wreak  on every one of her musical pieces that I have listened to or watched!

3.       This dame is of course nobody else but South Africa’s new-found national asset and true sensation: the eternally lachrymose Zahara!

4.       There she was singing her tearful ‘Impilo inzima ifuna abomeleleyo’ which from her Isixhosa-language medium can be translated to 

“Life is for No Sissy [while I young Zahara have always been ready and prepared with your prayers to meet pound for pound this taxing thing called ‘life’] even though the price I have so far had to pay has too often meant I jettison my most precious possessions, or even forsake my own parents all in order to ride this tiger called 'life'!”

5.       (Blog author heard this sound for the first time 18th November 2013 and I was pleasantly bowled  over by the sheer heaven in a voice presented to my ears as a carbon copy of the song message which product was thereafter  in some geometrically-precise marvel, sonorously glued together by its symmetry with the instrumentation (or vice-versa) all in one song: “Impilo Inzima [Life is Tough!]”!

6.       And that, Ladies and Gentlemen and My Blog Audience, is the peculiarity of a Zahara the world is still to know more about! (Where are the world-class great musical artists who can help her grow as I hear her on some vid expressing the wish of singing with one or two best-known female artist from across our oceans!)

But I would say to her: Don't Forget The Male of The Vocal Species, Dear!  Maybe it is not a Cinderalla, rather a Knight in a Shining Armour that is destined to catapult your career to the dizzying heights the world I am sure is hoping for you, the backwaters of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province notwithstanding!

7.       Merry Christmas all!

8.       Christmas remains methinks one of the best times to say prayers that shall be answered.  We as a nation have just lost to the Next World Great Man Nelson Mandela whose greatness shall never be diminished by Blog Author's constitutionally-privileged thoughts and views that he was the greatest counterfeit leader the world has ever produced: but that is greatness, too, isn't it? which is why I too as a South African mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela.  As such a mourning nation that we are, please, World, continnue to pray for us South Africans and particularly for this young South African musical artist, Zahara.

Pray also for all other young ones of our land who, like Zahara, are trying to change for the better the lives not only for themselves, but also for the entire South African Nation all in one artistic way or another as not all youth are destined to sing like Zahara: but others will be poets, writers, politicians (I like Julius Malema's courage/audacity), others professional grave-diggers, professional bank robbers, and then also the sportsmen and women  you name it etc. etc. etc.! (aside: sometimes I wish I were a bank robber and so I would not be sitting penniless on a Christmas day as 2013 l.o.l!!!)

9.       Whoever said South Africa does not need anymore the support of the World just as it used to happen during the anti-Apartheid struggle!

10.   All being said and done, one thing is clear to me: us South Africans wish o so much for Zahara to make it in her musical career not only for our beloved motherland  but also for the entire world of which some (but in my view too few) of its audiences she has already wowed with her milk-and-honey of her music.

11.   I believe she can  easily be the Miriam Makeba of the 21st century despite her disappointingly-depressed worldview: ‘life is tough!’

12.   However tough life may be, Girl; please take Phiri’s advice: NEVER EVER DO DRUGS! TAKE A YEAR’S BREAK (IF NEED BE) RATHER THAN EXPERIMENTING WITH DRUGS IN YOUR INDUSTRY THAT IS REPUTED FOR HIGH ADDICTION TO COCAINE AND OTHER SILLY SUBSTANCES THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR GOOD VOICE AND YOUR GOD-GIVEN TALENT!


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