Friday, September 14, 2012

Nous Marchons

Natembea Nuruni Mwake in many languages.


Friday, July 27, 2012

Swahili gospel songs by non-Swahili Singers

Tazama wewe ni Bwana... This song reminds me of 1990 - 92 time period ... They sing it nicely almost without foreign accent. In fact, the men sing with Kurya or Nyakyusa accent. Isn't it?

Tuonane Paradiso... Kind of sad song. But these singers sing it also almost without foreign accent. May be because they speak Spanish. Swahili pronunciations may not be far fetched from Spanish. The drum is magnificent too.

Tuonane Paradiso... In this version the Western Europe accent is hardly notable. Except, the singers did not pronounce "taji" as is pronounced in Swahili. So it sounds "Na tai tutavikwa...", which may be the case, who knows ;) But otherwise their version is also good. The drum and makofi sound authentic.

Tuonane Paradiso... These singers are with strong Western Europe accent of Swahili. Also, "mji" and "taji" are distorted by the accent. They nevertheless perform the song well, especially uimbaji wa kudakia.

Tuonane Paradiso... This is instrumental. They use marimba ya kupuliza, if there anything like that. Or is zeze that they are using? Fantastic performance.