Lilongwe, August 5, 2015: At 13 years Lucius Banda started singing with his brother Paul Banda who was the band leader of Alleluya Band. At that age in 1983, Lucius Banda, fondly called ‘Soldier’first appeared on stage to perform, a journey that would prove to be a very long but successful one.
22 years later after his first album release in 1993 of ‘Son of a Poor Man’ Solder has released his 18th album titled Thank You. The launch of the 18th album took place at Robins Park in Blantyre on 24th July and at WakaWaka Hotel on 26th July, 2015 respectively.
However, the Son of a poor man hit maker, in an interview with Malawi News Agency (Mana) said the journey of launching his album is not yet over as he will now take the performance to South Africa (SA).
According to him, he is scheduled to perform at Booysen Hotel on 28th of August and at Marafaco on the 29th. These will be followed by a show at Tijucaon August 30 and lastly on September 5, he is expected to perform at Amadoda Woodstock in Capetown.
“We are well prepared for the show in SA, as you can see we will be performing at classy and decent Hotels whereby the venue is big and the entry fee is pegged at R150,” he said while disclosing that this time around, the whole of Zembani Band will travel to SA for all the shows.
“This is also the very first time we are taking the whole band, previously we would go just a few of us from Zembani Band and combine with other artist in SA forming a band,” he said.
According to Lucius Banda, the show of the album launch in SA has been organized due to the high demand of people living there.
He said “People in SA should get ready to see Nepman whom they have wanted to watch performing and Sam Simakweri who has grown in music and Limbani Banda will be there too.”
Lucius, who said has lost count on how many times he has performed on stage after launching his career,said this could be his eleventh performance in SA and added that fans will walk away with a free original CD upon entry and both shows will be ending at dawn.
The album contain songs like Ndilirabe, Nthungululu, Wandimasula, Sagona, Way Forward, Walema, Tikuzifuna,Dyalilamba, Rita amongst others.
The album was recorded at Groove Magic, Mathumela Studio, Audio clinic and at Active A Records.
