Nashil Pichen Kazembe: Difference between revisions

Nashil Pichen ended his career as a solo artiste after returning from Kenya to [[Lusaka]]. His big hit "''[[aPhiri Anabwera]]''" was the first single to sell more than 50,000 units in [[Zambia]]. It was a song about Mr Phiri -  a long lost migrant worker who returns home from the city empty handed only to find that no one in his village remembers him. Pichen had earlier scored a string of hits with his [[Super Mazembe (band)|Super Mazembe]] band singing in Zambian, Congolese and Kenyan languages. Although he returned to Zambia in the 1980s and recorded a number of albums there, Kenya knows him more for his Nairobi hits. It was in Kenya that he developed his unique style of combining Zambian traditional music with Congolese, Kenyan and Southern African urban rhythms like soukous, benga music and kwela. He was also very popular in Zimbabwe.

Although Kazembe had such a successful music career, at the time of his death he was a very poor man. No family members or offspring are known.