Glorious Band to bounce back

GLORIOUS Band says it is coming back ‘too hot’ to show that it is still in the music industry after going for a ‘retreat’ to re-organise itself.
It has since recorded two albums with some songs already hitting the airwaves on radio stations on the Copperbelt.
Band spokesperson Derrick Mwansa said the band was busy re-organising itself to bring in new suitable members after the death of three colleagues in the past years.
“There was nothing we could do after the natural cause of death that took away our colleagues, but we have to re-organise and soldier on. We have to continue with our talent to present various entertainment and educative songs to the masses,” he said.
In an interview in Chingola during the week, Mwansa appealed to the business community and other well-wishers to support the band to enable it to release its newly recorded albums and distribute them to the market.
The Chingola-based outfit which rose to fame in early 2000, lost its drummer Obias Mbyangu, who was the first person to pass on, followed by and rhythm lead guitarist Jonathan Chibesa Kunda, who was band leader, and later Allan Kasafu, the backing vocalist.
After the death of the trio, Mwansa and Christian Kenda have carried on with the band and have recruited two members. The two new members are Lloyd Kaluba, who is now the lead vocalist, and Kennedy Mulenga, who is on drums.
Mwansa described Kaluba as having a ‘golden voice’ like that of late Chibesa and has managed to fit in the band very well.
“We are still a ‘bomb’ and a force to reckon with in playing live and mature music for both the elderly and the young,” he said.
Mwansa said the band’s ‘resurrection’ is fully packed with both educative and entertaining songs as it has to continue honouring the souls of its late members.
Some of the songs in the new albums include Naliweme Kumako, a title track of one of the albums, and Nakweba Wishita Roller Meal, also a title track of the second album.
In Naliweme Kumako song, the group talks about the in-laws’ behaviour towards their son in-law after he loses a job and is no longer being considered a man worth the ‘salt’. The album has eight tracks.
is about a naughty child who after being sent to the market by her mother, buys the opposite of what he was told to purchase.
The songs on the albums have been recorded at Avis Studios Mission Press in Ndola and Sukam Tech Studios in Chingola.

(DailyMail)