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Speaker 1: What Weekend Breakfast in the music corner. Good boto love us.

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Speaker 2: Hello, it's a go by Azawadi Yamungo taking us to

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Speaker 2: seventeen minutes before ten o'clock and that's how we kick

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Speaker 2: off the music corner for this morning. It's proudly and

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Speaker 2: loudly South African this morning speaking to musician, vocalist, composer, arranger,

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Speaker 2: but also most importantly quabao player, a bowl player. Zawadiyamongo

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Speaker 2: joins us this morning. Zawadi, A very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to weekend Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: I good morning. How are you guys?

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Speaker 2: Well well and how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm tired, I'm excited though setting for you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: For joining us this morning. So for people who don't

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Speaker 2: know who you are, who is sawadi Ya.

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Speaker 1: Mongol Sawardia Mongom. Firstly, the stage name is in Kiswahili

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Speaker 1: language and it meant a gift from God. It is

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Speaker 1: a direct translation of my name Zulu name Gosimpel and

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Speaker 1: go Banguzulu actually, and then I was born in Mandani.

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Speaker 1: I grew up in Mandani uh but currently in Durban,

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Speaker 1: so I'm just case it and based. And then I'm

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Speaker 1: an instrumentalist. I'm very interested in indigenous instruments, the instruments

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Speaker 1: that are usually not seen anymore, as I playuan apple

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Speaker 1: instrument and also play a hand pen, which the instruments

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Speaker 1: that was most popular back in the days. Right.

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Speaker 2: So, growing up in MANDANEI North and Case, and do

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Speaker 2: you remember your first I guess like your clearest memory

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Speaker 2: of music and kind of not only just experiencing music

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Speaker 2: as a listener, which is I guess how most of

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Speaker 2: us experience music, but it was something you realized you

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Speaker 2: could do, you could do well, and that you enjoyed

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Speaker 2: doing as well.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, I think more than anything back in the days

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Speaker 1: when I was younger, I only loved music. I sang

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Speaker 1: at church. I was a leader. I remember this one

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Speaker 1: time they really called their way, even calling me Mahalia

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Speaker 1: at church, and then at school as well. I started groups.

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Speaker 1: I formed music music groups, and then I was very

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Speaker 1: inspired by Jennifer Hudson's songs and I used to perform

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Speaker 1: those songs a lot. So I was hoping that one

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Speaker 1: day I'll be the next Jennifer Hudson in the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's interesting that you were kind of looking

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Speaker 2: at Jennef Hadson of course as an American African American singer.

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Speaker 2: But your music is so deeply rooted in not just

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Speaker 2: I think South Africa, but in Africa and general, from

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Speaker 2: the instruments.

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Speaker 1: You play to maybe the language I'm using, the.

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Speaker 2: Language, to the storytelling using Amahubo. So how did you

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Speaker 2: kind of find that as the thing you wanted to do?

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Speaker 2: So you were looking at oh, I like Genef Hadton,

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Speaker 2: I like her voice. I'd like to be perhaps like her.

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Speaker 2: But then you find this particular sound and I guess

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Speaker 2: this becomes part of your creative identity or part of

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Speaker 2: the music you want to make.

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Speaker 1: Yes, when I joined African Heriticien Ensemble that was in

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen post Metric, I met Causa and he had

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Speaker 1: a group that was called Jenef Heerdson. Why that was

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Speaker 1: called African Heritagens, and then I joined the group. I

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Speaker 1: was part of the group. And then I think because

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Speaker 1: he was really giving us the teachings about culture, preserving culture,

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Speaker 1: heritage and also our roots, our identity. I think then

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Speaker 1: I found myself. I found my sound. Singing Amaho was

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Speaker 1: daily being influenced by Princess Macco's songs. And then Bosom

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Speaker 1: Showers songs. It then gave me a sense of I

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Speaker 1: really really wants to sound like this. I really really

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Speaker 1: wants to be a person that preserves our culture more

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Speaker 1: than anything, and a person that preserves our sound more

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Speaker 1: than anything. And for our youth, for our people, for

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Speaker 1: our future generation, for letting making sure that anything that

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Speaker 1: belongs to us or belonged to us does not die

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Speaker 1: because of us. Yeah, as an artist here.

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Speaker 2: I was reading an interview you did with News twenty

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Speaker 2: four and you were speaking about your debut album, which

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Speaker 2: you released in twenty twenty at Macoco School of Thought

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Speaker 2: as a tribute to Princess Makoko, and you were quoted

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Speaker 2: as saying, while working on the album, I was afraid

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Speaker 2: that the music would only resonate with older people, because

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Speaker 2: they are the ones who might be familiar with Princess

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Speaker 2: Makoko and other people who played the kind of instruments

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Speaker 2: I use. I was pleasantly surprised by how well the

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Speaker 2: music was received. Tell us about I guess some of

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Speaker 2: the responses you've gotten from your listeners, from people listening

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Speaker 2: to your music for the first time, especially if they

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Speaker 2: are younger, and maybe some of them have never heard

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Speaker 2: of Princess Macoco. They picked up Macoco for the thought

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Speaker 2: and so talk to us about how that's been, you know,

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Speaker 2: that experience for you, a realizing other people wanted to

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Speaker 2: listen to it and what they have experienced and shared

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Speaker 1: I can even tell by when I'm announcing that I

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Speaker 1: have a show, and when people miss me around maybe

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Speaker 1: on events, most young people comes to me and saying,

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Speaker 1: we respect you, we love your music, we really love

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Speaker 1: to learn more about Princess Macoco, would really love to

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Speaker 1: learn more from you. And they really even think I

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Speaker 1: carry a lot of knowledge around our culture and how

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Speaker 1: to even execute the voice, you know, that that old voice,

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Speaker 1: you know, because there's a difference between singing ehobo and

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Speaker 1: that voice that evokes emotions when singing I'm a hobo

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Speaker 1: and the voice that I don't know. That's that's that

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Speaker 1: we now use mostly, you know, in our times. So Langa,

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Speaker 1: your Princess Macoco, that's thiner voice that carries a lot

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Speaker 1: of history in it. You know when they when when

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Speaker 1: maybe na the flow off from the top to the

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Speaker 1: bottom and then also be able to come up again.

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Speaker 1: But using the voice, those nuances are still as relevant

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Speaker 1: and special and they have died because of them, because

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Speaker 1: Bona Basek or you know, so we really had to

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Speaker 1: have somebody else or other artists as well, or musicians

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Speaker 1: that could really bring those voices back to our people.

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Speaker 1: But what's there? The most beautiful thing is that they

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Speaker 1: it is being received very well by Avan Debaseba, because

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Speaker 1: I knew when I did those songs that, okay, my

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Speaker 1: tact clearly is old people, people that knows history about

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Speaker 1: prints and our histringy is Africans. But in my surprise

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Speaker 1: that even in new universities, I've met a lot of

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Speaker 1: people from universities, have visited a few of US universities

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Speaker 1: as well, and all people and all young ones, they

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Speaker 1: all come to me to say, can you teach us

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Speaker 1: from Aquayana how to make it? How to play it,

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Speaker 1: but how to marry the voice with an instrument and

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Speaker 1: everything that I do, you know. So it came to

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Speaker 1: my surprise, but also I'm excited that it was able

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Speaker 1: to be received like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're currently on tour then, so you actually just

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Speaker 2: played a show in Durban. You have a show coming

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Speaker 2: up in Joeburg. Are there any tickets left for the

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Speaker 2: Joeburg show? Or has it sold out?

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Speaker 1: No, it's not sold out yet. They're not sold out.

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Speaker 1: I was excited. We just didn't show yesterday. It was

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Speaker 1: amazing Conriche to be at the Market Theater and they

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Speaker 1: on the fourteenth of March. The ticket are still available

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Speaker 1: at red Tickets and I have all the links on

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Speaker 1: my bios if you can still go and grab the ticket,

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Speaker 1: because hey, guys, for the Durban it was a mess.

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Speaker 1: Tickets went out and people were really really torturing me

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Speaker 1: around about tickets. They'll wanted tickets, but so badly. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: I couldn't help. So please, when you still have time,

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Speaker 1: I can just people just go and buy tickets at

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Speaker 1: wept tickets or at pick and Pay using the links

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Speaker 1: on my bios. A countrait to bring the instance of

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Speaker 1: de Moche and all that I am on stage and

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Speaker 1: celebrate with them being beautiful and being in our beautiful country.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm also at the untitled Basement on the twelfth,

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Speaker 1: So if you can't make it on the fourteenth, I'm

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Speaker 1: at the antipe of Basement just voicing piano on the

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Speaker 1: twelfth of March.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like a treat. Zawadi, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: giving us your time this morning. A great peasure having

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Speaker 2: you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so so much for having me. Enjoy your

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Speaker 1: day you too.

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Speaker 2: That's musician, vocalist, composer, arranger and multi instrumentalist Zawadi yamon Go.

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Speaker 2: Here is Gimouche on the music Horner

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Speaker 1: Now Bunny the Lesser musing on one goals in ter