Freshlyground Set To Release New Album In March 2018
Getting to know Freshlyground's lead singer Zolani Mahola
Freshlyground Set To Release New Album In March 2018. Longest serving Afro Fusion band Freshlyground will be releasing another album this year in March titled Can’t Stop which will feature their single Black Girls. In their 15 years in the industry catering fans with amazing music that have earned them awards the group has released a total of 6 albums , Jika Jika (2003), Nomvula (2004), Ma’ Cheri (2007), Radio Africa (2010), Take Me to the Dance (2012) and The Legend (2013).
The band is now set to perform at the KDay in Cape Town, this weekend. Lead singer Zolani Mahola had a chance to give a side of her fans knew little of in an interview at bizcommunity.com where she revealed anything from her favourite albums and what she would be if she wasn’t a musician.
Here’s an Q&A of Zolani Mahola :
What does music mean to you?
It means life really. There are only one or two other things in my life that make me feel like I’m in exactly the right place at the right time or that I’m doing what I was meant to do on this Earth.
Your heroes?
Ordinary South Africans who have been denigrated told all there lives that they are less than that they deserve very little in life, that they are intrinsically flawed. I admire the ones who somehow still get up every day in spite of the legacy they have been subjected to (which will be with us for a very long time) and still manage to live life without bitterness and with a hope for the future. These are my heroes.
It’s your round, what are you drinking?
Oh my goodness, I love drinking so much I’ve had to stop! So it’s water for me, sparkling!
The song you wished you wrote?
So many! Near any Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Thandiswa Mazwai, Busi Mhlongo, Ed Sheeran, Michael Jackson song! Smells Like Teen Spirit, yes Nirvana!
I’m short. Draws the eye.
I would be an actress. In fact, I was derailed from the path of theatremaker by a seeming talent for singing during my third year at varsity. So, I’d be onstage still but more acting.
Warm, awkward, strange, engaging, contradictory/eclectic.
Bob Marley – Natural Mystic
Laura Veirs – Salt Breakers
Black Keys – Turn Blue
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
What do you complain about most often?
I lament about sexual abuse, how little it’s talked about. How rife it is, how damaging it is and how much it seems a part of our human psyche.
Interviewed by Martin Myers from BizCommunity
