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'''Nashil Pichen Kazembe''' (1932–1991) was a [[Zambia]]n [[musician]] from [[Luapula Province]] of Zambia who became an African music star in the 1970s. He spent a long time in Nairobi, Kenya, where he collaborated with fellow Zambia emigre [[Peter 'Tsotsi' Juma]] who was from [[Mbala]] in [[Northern Province]] on the Zambia-Tanzania border and [[Benson Simbeye]]. | '''Nashil Pichen Kazembe''' (1932–1991) was a [[Zambia]]n [[musician]] from [[Luapula Province]] of Zambia who became an African music star in the 1970s. He spent a long time in Nairobi, Kenya, where he collaborated with fellow Zambia emigre [[Peter 'Tsotsi' Juma]] who was from [[Mbala]] in [[Northern Province]] on the Zambia-Tanzania border and [[Benson Simbeye]]. | ||
==Early life and career== | |||
Kazembe was born in [[Chief Nsama]]’s area close to the Congolese border in [[Kaputa District]], [[Luapula Province]] in 1932 and a relative of the [[Mwata Kazembe]] kingship of the [[Lunda people|Lunda kingdom]]. He taught himself how to play homemade banjos and later, a guitar and traversed Congo and Tanzania many times. | |||
Years later in 1953, he went to work in the mines in South Africa, where he formed his maiden band, the Bantu Negroes but disbanded after Kazembe returned to Zambia the following year, to become a business executive. | |||
==Music career== | ==Music career== | ||
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==Identity and origin== | ==Identity and origin== | ||
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. A lot of his Zambian-Rhumba songs competed fiercely with original Congolese musicians such as, John Bokelo, Baba Gasto Ilunga, Dr Nico and many others.<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. A lot of his Zambian-Rhumba songs competed fiercely with original Congolese musicians such as, John Bokelo, Baba Gasto Ilunga, Dr Nico and many others.<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> | ||
==Later life and death== | ==Later life and death== | ||
