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'''Emanuel “Jagari” Chanda''' | |||
==Music background=== | |||
He started listening to pop music first on the radio in the early ‘60s as a young boy-it was the DJ’s choice-e.g. "Top Of The Pops", "Beat In Germany" and Mozambiques forerunner to "Maputo Lorenzo Marica Hits Parade". His late elder brother George, who brought him up, had a radio and a record player, but his taste was Jim Reeves’ type of music, his was more of Cliff Richard, Beatles, Hollies, Monkeys, Manfred Mann, Troggs, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, Elvis Presley, and the like. The rock influence came slightly later, after he had listened to Deep Purple, Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Free, Alice Cooper, Santana, Black Sabbath, etc. Having had access to records through friends and schoolmates as Teal Records Company and Zambia Music Parlor came into the scene. | He started listening to pop music first on the radio in the early ‘60s as a young boy-it was the DJ’s choice-e.g. "Top Of The Pops", "Beat In Germany" and Mozambiques forerunner to "Maputo Lorenzo Marica Hits Parade". His late elder brother George, who brought him up, had a radio and a record player, but his taste was Jim Reeves’ type of music, his was more of Cliff Richard, Beatles, Hollies, Monkeys, Manfred Mann, Troggs, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, Elvis Presley, and the like. The rock influence came slightly later, after he had listened to Deep Purple, Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Free, Alice Cooper, Santana, Black Sabbath, etc. Having had access to records through friends and schoolmates as Teal Records Company and Zambia Music Parlor came into the scene. | ||
The 'WITCH' were based in Kitwe (about 340 kilometers from the capital, Lusaka). But recordings by various bands and solo artists only came after 'WITCH', and when Teal Records and Zambia Music Parlor started signing on musicians from the mid-1970s onward. | The 'WITCH' were based in Kitwe (about 340 kilometers from the capital, Lusaka). But recordings by various bands and solo artists only came after 'WITCH', and when Teal Records and Zambia Music Parlor started signing on musicians from the mid-1970s onward. | ||
