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A gospel-singer-turned-reggae artist, Jah Lady Dorris, has just released an album with the brave title Kha vha humele kamarani yavho (Get back to your bedroom).
The quality of lyrics and her voice only show that she has finally found her space in the reggae genre. The sound and rhythm are well balanced and blended together.
On the title track, Kha vha humele kamarani yavho, she tells a father to stop sneaking into his daughter's room because that kind of anti-social behaviour is not proper. “We still have fathers who get into their daughters' rooms and rape them,” she says. “All those fathers are not real fathers; we need real fathers. Such monstrous fathers, like the song says, need to get back to their rooms and stop abusing innocent children.”
To say that Jah Lady Dorris has finally found her real voice as an artist might sound like writing off her earlier gospel songs or albums, but that is not the case. It is only that she seems to have more issues to tackle and address since after she chose to sing reggae.
“I love reggae sounds and the message that we convey through this music,” she says.
Most parts of South Africa are riddled with lack of water and, instead of just saying the country is dry, Jah Lady Dorris asks the government to provide free-flowing water to all citizens in the song Water.
The other songs in the album include Kha vha dibvise, U dzuvha, Kha vha hule, and U ndolisa thoho mapfura.
Kha vha humele kamarani yavho was recorded at Burning Shack Studios in Thohoyandou. The entire project was supervised, produced, engineered and mastered by the highly talented Mulalo Mukwevho.
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Jah Lady Dorris demonstrates growth on her new album, Kha vha humele kamarani yavho.
By: Tshifhiwa Mukwevho
Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.
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