OLIVER MTUKUDZI
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| Backup singer croons |
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| The dancing started right on the stage and spread into the crowd |
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| Energetic, expressive, age-defying... |
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| Simple beautiful stage |
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| Tendo Kaggwa looks on hopefullly as I try to confince Oliver's manager that the concert wont end up on Youtube. He let us keep the live feed cameras |
Mtukudzi is an old man. You would never know it. This man has an enormous stage presence. When he stops mid song to talk to you in that raspy voice, it is like he is just talking to you alone. And he tries to relate to you.
He has been around. he gives advice on hundreds of things between songs jumping from one thing to another.
But when he sings he fills the room with “a very big energy”. He dances. And dances. And he has this one singing girl on the stage who floated around in a long skirt or dress. You spent half an hour without seeing her feet but she just moved and moved and filled up the stage with an ageless legend beside her mirroring the moves.
He then said copyright this and that and asked for the cameras to be switched off so that the concert doesn’t end up on YouTube. The old timer is scared of Youtube. I pleaded with the manager and gave assurances. We were allowed to live feed to the screens. But people have smartphones with HD cameras. And ipads and galaxy tabs (which should never be used to record video by the way) I hope the concert isn't on YouTube.
Then he sang again and danced. For hours. And his wife sold his cds in the lobby. Old habits I think from the early days. Rich sound, real life legend, nice concert
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