Brighton Zimidzi
Showbiz and Entertainment Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Writer, Maskandi and Amapiano musician Zenzele Nkomo sings songs adapted from his poems and short stories. When he writes a poem, it is converted to a song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“My musical journey was inspired by my collection of literary works. All my songs are adapted from my poems because we live in a society where there are different people with different interests. Some people may relate better to my messages through poetry and others through music’, said Nkomo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nkomo revealed that he chose to deliver his message musically using the Maskandi genre because he embraces and aims to revive his Ndebele culture and language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I started writing poems when I was at school in 1996 and then I published my first anthology titled Sigiya ngolwethu with Abalobi bakithi in 2014. The second anthology was titled ‘Sivus’olwenkaba’ and was published in 2017. I also have a novel titled ‘ukufulathela'”, added Nkomo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He founded his own publishing company and named it Mhlaba Mkhulu Publishers which is his grandfathers name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an exclusive interview with ZIM GBC NEWS<\/strong> Nkomo also mentioned his musical journey in detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n ” In music, so far i have worked on two albums, which are izifiso ezingasafezekanga and KuLimpopo. In both albums i sang both my genres (Maskandi and Amapiano). I have performed both albums at the Hillbrow theater in South Africa and at different gigs in Johannesburg. I have also featured some Maskandi artists namely, Inkunzi yehlathi, Mzilikazi KB and many others”<\/p>\n\n\n\n He also announced that he is planning on releasing a new single titled ‘Vuka’ which will be released end of April this year. The single addresses the issue of laziness in the society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brighton ZimidziShowbiz and Entertainment Reporter Writer, Maskandi and Amapiano musician Zenzele Nkomo sings songs adapted from his poems and short stories. When he writes a poem, it is converted to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}