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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