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TALENTED and award-winning South African gospel musician Solly Mahlangu is expected to perform at Harare Gardens on September 7 alongside some popular local artistes that include Pastor Charles and Olivia Charamba and Sebastian Magacha. The concert will be part of the annual Open Heavens crusade now in its fifth year which is being organised by Apostolic Faith Mission Shiloh Word Miracle Centre which runs from September 2–6. The Open Heavens Crusade will be held at Mabelreign Shopping Centre.
Mahlangu is rocking the airwaves across the region through his touching gospel lyrics that saw his album “Mwamba Mwamba” winning the best Traditional Faith Music Album Award at the South African Music Awards last year. During the same year he scooped four awards both in South Africa and United Kingdom.
In 2009 he won the Best Gospel Song at the SABC Gospel Crown Awards that were held in Durban.
Other musicians who will share the stage with Ma- hlangu are Mathias Mhere, Liberty Ticharwa, Worship Addicts and Shiloh Word Praise and Worship team.
In an interview, Reverend Sasa – who is the visionary of Open Heavens – said every challenge one faces comes with an expiry date hence the gospel concert and musical show wants to achieve that.
“Your life must not operate under a closed heaven. Your marriage cannot flourish under a closed heaven. Your business cannot grow under a closed heaven.
“Our nation cannot enjoy moral and economic dignity under a closed heaven. Our continent cannot celebrate all round freedom under a closed heaven. This is our time to position ourselves for the full manifestation of God’s glory as we bask under an Open Heaven. With man, it is impossible but with God all things are possible,” he said.
Mahlangu is back to Open Heaven by popular demand after gracing the occasion last year. Last year he promised to be back in Zimbabwe after being “touched by Zimbabwean’s hospitality, love for God and support for gospel show”.
He advises aspiring musicians that the music industry has challenges that one has to overcome.
“One has to go through hurdles and there are certain doors that one cannot easily open. It is always better to be ready and have no opportunity than to have an opportunity and not be ready.
“The biggest mistake that musicians commit is that they point to an opportunity at a distance while the opportunity they are looking for is in them. Since I started singing, I went through moulding, quality and presentation to match the quality that was already in the market,” Mahlangu said.
The Open Heavens music concert boasts attendance of a cross-section of people drawn from virtually all sectors of the economy who come together in an ambience of divine praise and worship.
and is seen, a bridge of reconciliation, and a beacon of light and hope to the much afflicted and sick to receive greater glory from God.
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