Elemotho winner of the 2012 RFI France 24 music award
Elemotho winner of RFI-France 24 Discoveries music award 2012. Namibian singer-songwriter and guitarist Elemotho GR Mosimane joins the ranks of former laureates Tiken Jah Fakoly from Cote d'Ivoire, Mali's Amadou and Mariam and Didier Awadi of Senegal. He's no newcomer to music, and is shortly to release his third album.
Elemotho's music mixes the sounds of his native land with anglo-saxon inspired folk.
While he says he's flattered at the idea of being an ambassador for Namibia, he prefers not to define his music.
It draws on the "rhythms of the Kalahari... melodies of meditation.. and messages for modern times", he says.
As part of the RFI-France24 Discoveries award, the Institut Français sponsored a huge tour of some 20 African countries in early 2013.
Then there's the record deal with a UK based company who're making a compilation of his 3 albums.
And a tour of India, Nepal and Indonesia in September 2013.
Ke Nako, the time is now
Elemotho's music mixes the sounds of his native land with anglo-saxon inspired folk.
While he says he's flattered at the idea of being an ambassador for Namibia, he prefers not to define his music.
It draws on the "rhythms of the Kalahari... melodies of meditation.. and messages for modern times", he says.
As part of the RFI-France24 Discoveries award, the Institut Français sponsored a huge tour of some 20 African countries in early 2013.
Then there's the record deal with a UK based company who're making a compilation of his 3 albums.
And a tour of India, Nepal and Indonesia in September 2013.
Ke Nako, the time is now
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