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Mukando started singing in a cover-band with his siblings while living in [[Mansa]] in the 1970s. At the time there was no television signal in Mansa and as a form of entertainment the Mukando kids “grabbed pots and brooms – brooms would be guitars and the pots would be drums and sang Archies songs and Jackson Five songs for their parents.<ref name=Opera>[http://www.operaz.org/ PADDY MUKANDO: THE SHY OPERA STAR, DJ AND TV COMMERCIAL ACTOR] OperaZ</ref> | Mukando started singing in a cover-band with his siblings while living in [[Mansa]] in the 1970s. At the time there was no television signal in Mansa and as a form of entertainment the Mukando kids “grabbed pots and brooms – brooms would be guitars and the pots would be drums and sang Archies songs and Jackson Five songs for their parents.<ref name=Opera>[http://www.operaz.org/ PADDY MUKANDO: THE SHY OPERA STAR, DJ AND TV COMMERCIAL ACTOR] OperaZ</ref> | ||
Other than performing with his siblings, Paddy has almost exclusively sung in church until April 2013 when | Other than performing with his siblings, Paddy has almost exclusively sung in church until April 2013 when Peter Langmead asked him to perform in the first Zambian opera, ''[[Damyna Damyna]]'' at [[Lusaka Playhouse]], which was produced by [[OperaZ]]. Paddy accepted and begun his opera career. He has since performed in an opera review.<ref name=Opera/> | ||
===Heritage Singers=== | ===Heritage Singers=== | ||
