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Nashil Pichen ended his career as a solo artiste after returning from Kenya to [[Lusaka]]. His 1970s 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. | Nashil Pichen ended his career as a solo artiste after returning from Kenya to [[Lusaka]]. His 1970s 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. | ||
Because of his fame in East Africa, most believed that Kazembe was actually Kenyan. To this date, he is known more among Kenyans than Zambias because he had settled there as early as 1958.<ref name=times>[http://www.times.co.zm/?p=13182 PITCHEN KAZEMBE LEGACY LIVES ON] by Davies M. M. Chanda, [[Times of Zambia]], 7 March 2014</ref> | Because of his fame in East Africa, most believed that Kazembe was actually Kenyan. To this date, he is known more among Kenyans than Zambias because he had settled there as early as 1958. On the other hand, because of his style of music and the way he sometimes dressed, others believed he was Congolese.<ref name=times>[http://www.times.co.zm/?p=13182 PITCHEN KAZEMBE LEGACY LIVES ON] by Davies M. M. Chanda, [[Times of Zambia]], 7 March 2014</ref> A lot of his Zambian-Rhumba songs highly competed with original music from Congo. | ||
===Lyrical controversy=== | ===Lyrical controversy=== | ||
