adminJAH Prayzah will launch his latest two albums today and tomorrow in Harare and Bulawayo.
Thousands of fans are expected at Old Hararians in the capital and at Queens Sports Club in the City of Kings for the launch of the two albums.
There is no question that Jah has now established himself as one of the biggest stars in our music industry today with the capacity to even scale greater heights.
He has come a long way, from the days when he used to sing just for about five fans, on Wednesday nights, when promoter Josh Hozheri was trying to help him settle in the big city.
Today, for instance, a VVIP ticket costs a cool US$200 and that explains the box office attraction that he has become.
He has worked hard for it, spending countless days and nights in the studios, to ensure that he keeps improving, in a tough industry, where everything can suddenly go wrong.
There is no time for relaxing in this hostile industry, where every song and album goes through intensive scrutiny, and could be the difference between rising and falling.
Jah has also managed to take his name into foreign markets through his collaboration with established artists, from beyond our borders.
He has also assumed the role of a mentor, with many other artists having come through his stable and going on to establish themselves as stars who now command their own significant fan base.
It’s a credit to Jah Prayzah, and the journey he has undertaken, that he is now mentioned among some of the finest Zimbabwean musicians of all-time.
This week, his name was being mentioned alongside that of the immortal Oliver Mtukudzi, a national hero, who is widely regarded as the finest musician to come out of our country.
Of course, as we have seen this week, there will be an army of analysts, and critics, who will question whether Tuku is the GOAT, when it comes to Zimbabwean music.
That is natural because tastes, when it comes to music, just like in football, are different and there will never be universal agreement on a particular artist or football team, when it comes to talking about greatness.
As a newspaper, it is our job to ensure that these discussions, as and when they come up, should be afforded the space so that the fans can feast on the content and make their own judgments.
It’s not our job to anoint one musician as the GOAT.
This is for the fans to judge and, right now, for us, what matters is Jah Prayzah’s two albums, to see how the public will embrace them or, even though this is highly unlikely, reject them.
We want Jah Prayzah’s two projects to be successful because we support all our artists and we want them to be successful.
We celebrate the fact that our country has produced great musicians like Tuku and Jah and we are not interested in who is better.
Online Reporter