Mohamed Said
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MAKTABA NA VIPANDE VYA MUZIKI WA ENZI HIZO
Huwa haipiti muda hungia katika mitaa ya Maktaba kujikumbusha hiki na kile.
Leo nimekutana na mswada wa kitabu nilichoandika na Ally Sykes kuhusu maisha yake: ''Under the Shadow of British Colonialism The Life of Ally Sykes.''
(Hiki kitabu bado hakijachpwa).
Nimekuta kipande hiki ambacho nimekiunganisha na muziki wake.
Soma kwanza hapo chini kisa chenyewe kisha ndiyo sikiliza muziki wake:
''January 1959 Peter Colmore and Edward Masengo flew to Elizabethville to fetch Bosco for a short contract for promotion of Aspro.
Bosco was a household name in East Africa but no one has seen even his photograph or knew how he looked like because he had never travelled out of Congo.
At that time he was recording with a South African recording company, Gallatone.
Bosco stayed in Nairobi for six months.
The Belgian government made Colmore pay 30,000 francs as deposit to make sure that Colmore would return Bosco back to Congo.
The effect, which Bosco had on the sales of Aspro, was unimaginable.
Colmore put Bosco on a countrywide tour of Kenya promoting Aspro as relief for headaches, fever and flu.
At that time Bosco was twenty-nine years old and at the prime of his career.
Before he left for home Bosco composed a song in praise of Peter Colmore, ''Shangwe Mkubwa'' in which he sang of his flight from Elizabethville to Nairobi.
In the song Bosco pronounce ''Cormore'' instead of Colmore because of his French accent.
Music critics of those times were of the opinion that in all his compositions, in this number in praise of Peter Colmore Bosco was at his best.
And if one wants to appreciate the talent of Bosco he only has to listen the guitar work in the song.
Bosco died in a road accident in early 1990s in his hometown only few weeks after being interviewed by the BBC Swahili Service.
He was 60 years old.''
View: https://youtu.be/bKwFQ6XINF4
Huwa haipiti muda hungia katika mitaa ya Maktaba kujikumbusha hiki na kile.
Leo nimekutana na mswada wa kitabu nilichoandika na Ally Sykes kuhusu maisha yake: ''Under the Shadow of British Colonialism The Life of Ally Sykes.''
(Hiki kitabu bado hakijachpwa).
Nimekuta kipande hiki ambacho nimekiunganisha na muziki wake.
Soma kwanza hapo chini kisa chenyewe kisha ndiyo sikiliza muziki wake:
''January 1959 Peter Colmore and Edward Masengo flew to Elizabethville to fetch Bosco for a short contract for promotion of Aspro.
Bosco was a household name in East Africa but no one has seen even his photograph or knew how he looked like because he had never travelled out of Congo.
At that time he was recording with a South African recording company, Gallatone.
Bosco stayed in Nairobi for six months.
The Belgian government made Colmore pay 30,000 francs as deposit to make sure that Colmore would return Bosco back to Congo.
The effect, which Bosco had on the sales of Aspro, was unimaginable.
Colmore put Bosco on a countrywide tour of Kenya promoting Aspro as relief for headaches, fever and flu.
At that time Bosco was twenty-nine years old and at the prime of his career.
Before he left for home Bosco composed a song in praise of Peter Colmore, ''Shangwe Mkubwa'' in which he sang of his flight from Elizabethville to Nairobi.
In the song Bosco pronounce ''Cormore'' instead of Colmore because of his French accent.
Music critics of those times were of the opinion that in all his compositions, in this number in praise of Peter Colmore Bosco was at his best.
And if one wants to appreciate the talent of Bosco he only has to listen the guitar work in the song.
Bosco died in a road accident in early 1990s in his hometown only few weeks after being interviewed by the BBC Swahili Service.
He was 60 years old.''
View: https://youtu.be/bKwFQ6XINF4
