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After vanishing from music circles for almost four years, a resident of Siambe village, Elekanyani Tshabuse, has made a comeback with his second reggae album.
According to Tshabuse, it took him about six months to record the album until it was finally released last month. The new release, Marching to Zion, boasts ten tracks.
The opening song on the album the title track, Marching to Zion, is followed by a prayer song, Faranani Ma-Africa (literally meaning Africans must unite). A song that is already driving the fans crazy is Ni a delele. The song is about a spoilt child who tells his parents about his rights when they warn him about being disrespectful and against drug and alcohol abuse.
Elekanyani Tshabuse is not a new name in the music industry. His love of music dates back to the time when he was a keyboard player of the worship team for the Emmanuel Grace Fellowship Church at Dzingahe village in the late nineties. That is where he met Mr Nkhumeleni Rasikhinya. Together they recorded an album, Nwana was muvenda.
The album was recorded at the Londotainment Recording Studio in Pretoria and released in December 2010. Due to family poverty, Tshabuse went to Pretoria where he worked as a hawker, selling fruit and vegetables after completing his Grade 12 in 1999. While working as a hawker, Tshabuse enrolled for a diploma in fitting and turning with the Pretoria West College.
He dropped out of the college due to a lack of funds. He later enrolled for a diploma in marketing with the University of South Africa, a qualification he could not complete either, due to a lack of time management skills. According to him it was difficult for him to study while, at the same time, the pressure to be in the recording studio was growing with time.
Although he intends to enroll for a diploma in recreation and leisure studies at the University of Venda in the next academic year, he has reiterated the fact that music will remain part of his life until he dies. According to him, he has already started working on his third album which is likely to be released in the second half of next year.
Tshabuse can be phoned on 072 354 2930 for booking live performances.
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The cover of Elekanyani Tshabuse's new CD.
By: Frank Mavhungu
Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990. He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.
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