Acapella groups launch albums

Showbiz Correspondent
SOUTH Africa-based acapella groups Reality 7 and Light Appeal Ministries will tomorrow host a double launch of their albums at a local hotel.Reality 7 will release Ngeke S’guqe and Light Appeal Ministries, a 10 member group based in Johannesburg, will release Umangikhumbula.

Sabelo Masinga of Reality 7 said the Durban-based six-member group was preaching about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ through music.

The group members attend the Balindi Seventh Day Adventist Church in Nanda, KwaZulu-Natal.

“We are here as a mandate from God to preach to His people about the coming of Jesus. Zimbabwe is a good place to do that and we want to maintain the good relations that we have,” he said.

Masinga who sings first and second tenor said the album has 13 tracks and they were glad to be launching it with their counterparts, Light Appeal.

Dumolwenkosi Ndlovu, who sings bass in Light Appeal Ministries, said the Johannesburg-based group was also proclaiming the Second Coming of Jesus with their album launch.

“We are Zimbabweans based in Brixton, Johannesburg and we got together in 2001 and formed this acapella group. We are inspired by the scripture in Matthew 28 verse19 to 20 that reads, ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen,’” he said.

The launch will bring together members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the city. Groups from the denomination include Conquerors and Celeste Praise Singers among others.