UK-based Zim music promoter to launch gospel choir

ANESU MASAMVU

 

United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean gospel music promoter, Timothy Ngwenya, (pictured) will next month launch a new music group called Ebenezer Platinum Gospel Choir in the capital Harare.

According to Ngwenya, the new gospel outfit, which has 60 members, will be unveiled at a concert at ZAOGA Braeside Christian Centre, Harare on November 19, 2022.

The concert will also feature gospel music legends Mechanic Manyeruke, Rev Chivaviro and Sipho Makhabane.

The second concert to launch the choir will be held in the UK next year with a similar line up of gospel artists.

Ngwenya said the outfit would be a platform to give upcoming artistes a platform to be showcased.

He said the new formation would be a platform to give upcoming artists a platform to be showcased.

“I have decided that we start Ebenezer Platinum Gospel Choir which targets mostly those rising, gifted gospel musicians, get them together and form oneness,” Ngwenya said.

He added: “With that, we then decided that if we come up with a choir together, bring every musician together, it will be helpful. We have been doing this online but now we can come together and meet physically.”

Ngwenya told Business Times that he hopes the choir will bring hope to the people and address some of the challenges affecting people across the country.

“The two inspirational words that should take control of what we are doing are unity and love. You see in families, churches, politically, there are so many divisions, separation and we believe that having formed this choir, we might deliver a message to communities that no matter the different backgrounds we have, we can all be one family,” Ngwenya emphasised.

Ngwenya said the choir would have a number of artistes that have recorded songs and albums but who are yet to be established.

He said this could be their breakthrough opportunity.

“We have brought in a number of recording artists. We have realised that most of the choirs pick up young vibrant youths who haven’t recorded, and so we said since that part has already been done, we can bring together those who have recorded before but are not known and haven’t reached where they want to be.”

He added: “Our vision is for every musician to develop their ministries for the better. So, if we bring in say 20 artistes together, we want to make sure we try our best to make their songs a hit and that is good for them.”

Asked how a group of 60 artists will be effectively managed given a lot of reports of sexual scandals and abuses in a number of gospel choirs. Ngwenya said:

“Sometimes you may teach, and you may not be able to control some situations because individuals are going through a lot wherever they are.

“So, bringing people together, sometimes the frustrations that people have, the things that make people create all those scandals, most probably when they come together with other people, see how other people are behaving, how other people are talking, it may be helpful to avoid such scandals.”

He added, “One good advantage is that we did not do auditions because we were picking up experienced musicians so that they set the tone, and they have gone through that, they have seen it all and they have heard all about these things. So, we believe that with all that experience we will be able to control ourselves.”

 

 

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