JAZZ SINGER, Nduduzo Makhathini, is excited to promote his new album together with his son, Thingo, he sees that it will also attract young people.
Nduduzo who is also a music teacher as he has a doctorate in music, is preparing to release an album,The Myth We Choose in June. He has now released a new single called Get through.
He said he produced the album together with Thingo Makhathini (18).
“Collaborating with Tingo is not a new thing. In the first album that was Sketches of Tomorrow (released in 2014), there were children Nailah, Thingo and Moyo singing. They keep coming from work in different ways but he is starting to sit in the chair to be the producer or the producer of this album,” said Nduduzo while speaking to this newspaper in the United States of America (USA), where he has a circuit.
He said his children love music because they learned it in primary schools, but Thingo is the one who seems to want to continue it.
“He brought new ingredients that make this music even younger people will love it more.”
He said there are many people he has worked with including Black Coffee, his wife Omagugu, Dalisu Ndlazi, Lukmil Perez, Ayana Sikade, Shabaka Hutchings, Robin Fassie, Keenan Ahrends, Thando Zide and Muneyi.
He said the album talks about history and how people are said to have come from the world.
“In Zulu it is said that we came from a race, there were people like Mveli first there was Nomkhubulwane. We are looking to see if those traditional stories are connected to the future? Which of these articles do we remember and how do they shape our history and behavior? I am trying to connect that as maybe in the next hundred years, we will talk about Nomkhubulwane which new stories will build people and communities and the way we behave.”
He concluded by expressing his condolences on the passing of Albert Mazibuko of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, whom he worked with.
Recently, they released an album in collaboration with Mambazo, featuring Mbuso Khoza One Voice – One World.
“People like father Mazibuko contributed and had a way of saying what they want to leave behind. We remember what warms the heart when we cry. They left us with a lot of knowledge, they left us with many opportunities and we will always remember them for their contributions. It is said that a person like father Mazibuko is not gone, he is still alive, he lives on in music and teachings and everything he has done in the world.”