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Joyous Star Treats Fans To Solo Album
A musical director, producer and principal songwriter for Joyous Celebration since 2001, Nqubeko Mbatha’s announcement that he has released a solo album is long overdue.
Talking about his album “The album includes songs I have done with Joyous, but have rearranged, known traditional songs and new ones because I believe fans deserve new material,” said the man Joyous Celebration has to thank for all the classics he has written over the years.
Few years back, he showed his skills of playing keys mixing with his voice on SABC’s TV show “I want to sing gospel” in which he left the crowd looking for his solo album.
“Since birth, all I knew was gospel music. I come from that Assemblies of God and traditional hymns back-ground. I was exposed to it so much it became second nature,” he said.
This is probably one of the reasons he is such an asset to Joyous Celebration, as few musicians in the industry can match his skills.
On his debut solo album, Mbatha worked with his wife, fellow Joyous Celebration musician Ntokozo Mbambo. It is a classic Sonny and Cher relationship in which they support each other creatively and otherwise in their respective projects.
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