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===Solo career=== | ===Solo career=== | ||
Nashil Pichen ended his career as a solo artiste after returning from Kenya to [[Lusaka]] in 1979. His 1974 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]] in 1979. He sometimes worked as a producer for local bands and at one time, tutored with the [[Distro Kuomboka Band]], which is now resident at Mukuba Hotel in [[Ndola]]. | ||
He went on to release two albums, ''[[A Phiri Anabwera (album)|A Phiri Anabwera]]'' and ''[[Hot Hits of Nashil Pitchen Kazembe (album)|Hot Hits of Nashil Pitchen Kazembe]]'' and had a chain of singles too numerous to mention but some are, Naleli Libota, Nazangi Mwana, Merci Imbwembwe Yandi, Kasongo, Naweli Nini (swahili), Ichi tamfya Abaume (echo nshishibe), Unkhalamba simatenda, Ndelwala Love, Peace Work, Mpandileko Akabwanga, Chuma Chivuta, Ni Mwamuna Wanga Mwana, Lucia, Ba shi Maggie and Bashi Chanda. | |||
His 1974 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. | |||
===Identity and origin=== | ===Identity and origin=== | ||
