Party Like Youre Never Gonna Party Again
Past Shingai Darangwa | IOL |
The first matter I practise when I run into Berita at the lobby of The Star building in Joburg is greet her in Shona. Her response isn't the nigh coherent, and understandably so. Despite being born and raised in Zimbabwe, most of her adult life has been split between New Zealand and South Africa. And it's between these two countries that she's honed her craft and grown to exist fluent in her musical expression.
She can't quite put her finger on when she first developed an interest in music simply she recalls how she always loved the radio. "Zim radio was the shizzle, think?" she asks. I do. "When I was young, they used to play a lot of nice music. And they'd combine, yous'd get a lot of music from Zaire – you'd become Ismaël Lô, they'd play Salif Keita, Oliver Mtukudzi. They were just diverse and they played dainty music; that's what I retrieve."
She as well recalls being in the church choir but, as she hadn't yet discovered her gift, she was never the star. It was just after she moved to New Zealand with her family unit during the tough economic times in Republic of zimbabwe that she fell in honey with pop music. And when she got the opportunity to come and study in S Africa a few years afterward she looked forwards to it due to the South African pop civilization and urban influence she'd been exposed to during her days in Zim.
"I just realised that you know what, it's okay to fail sometimes. It's okay, I'm young," she says. "As a result, the song is very conversational. The offset verse goes something like, 'Are y'all ever gonna lead, or are you scared of letting go? Practise you need a reason, maybe a reminder of whom yous are? How dare yous say you're never gonna love again'. So the chorus goes, 'Open your middle, life is so full of surprises'."
It's a bright, cheery melody that sees Berita use her sultry vocalization to encouraging herself to selection her head up and dream over again. The one great matter that came out of her debut album was the collaboration with atypical icons, Oliver Mtukudzi and Hugh Masekela, for Mwana WaMai. She recalls how she'd already recorded the vocal with Mtukudzi when, at his birthday commemoration in Republic of zimbabwe, she decided to play the vocal for Masekela.
"I was nervous and shaking when I fabricated him listen to information technology. He listened then he's like, "So, when am I putting my function?" And that was it. I remember he had to leave early after the celebration. Before he left he told me equally soon as I got to SA to call him." And that's exactly what she did. This fabricated her realise that life is full of surprises and anything can come your way.
Her third album is due out in April and with the positive free energy in her life right now, she feels this will exist her all-time work notwithstanding. "The audio is corking, the audio is bigger, it's brighter. I experience like I'yard coming into myself and as a result the album is going to exist self-titled, it's going to be called Berita." On it, she has work with the likes of legendary producer, Mjakes Thebe, and Jazz maestro, Kunle Ayo.
She'due south just wrapping up one vocal where she'll be enlisting the legendary Yvonne Chaka-Chaka. She says to expect enticing, colourful and proudly African visuals. "Whatever I bring to the tabular array, I'thou proud of beingness a young, African woman. And I wanna showcase that."
Source: https://nehandaradio.com/2017/03/01/dare-say-youre-never-gonna-love-berita/
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