Lizibo Simon Clinches Country Deal
Rising Motswana Afro-pop musician Lizibo Glenn Simon has shot the video of his Ndebele song Uzamthola ngaphi in Bulawayo, together with his Zimbabwean counterpart Clint Cornish.
The collaboration is the first step in what Simon hopes would grow into a bigger and stronger relationship between them. The two artistes, who met in Bulawayo last week, are also working on a duet and are set to release a single by December.
A Bulawayo-based music production firm, Mo-hits Records, led by Itai Majaji brokered the deal between Simon and Cornish.
Simon, who has a Zimbabwean grandmother, said in Cornish, he has found a colleague who has an interest in cultural music like him.
“Cornish has a great love for cultural music, which applies to me as well,” said Lazy-boy, as the Gaborone-based star is also known.
“I listened to his music and immediately felt a strong connection with him.”
A former choral conductor at Marulamantsi High in Gaborone and Rainbow Primary School, Simon stressed the role that music can play in uniting the people of Zimbabwe and Botswana.
“Zimbabwe and Botswana are one,” said the Maru -a- pula-born performer.
“Music can bind our two nations together. In this relationship between I and Cornish, we want to spread love through music.” He said he has a strong passion for Afro-pop.
Cornish, said Simon, will reciprocate his visit by also visiting Gaborone next month. Majaji, who has worked with Cornish for more than two years was happy about the new relationship that he seeks to build between the two artistes.
He said it has always been his wish to work with artistes of different nationalities and cultures.
“Our relationship with him (Simon) has surpassed the business level. We have already become some kind of a family, a short time after this relationship started. The relationship has a potential to grow,” said Majaji.
The message behind Simon’s two-song single revolves around love. In the title track Uzomthola Ngaphi (O tla mmona ko kae) he urges men to treat women with respect. The other song O bore-ledi, is about the tender-heartedness of women.
[Via Mmegi ]
