Sechaba, Thank You: The review
This album is Sechaba's best work yet and deserves a SAMA. It just goes to show
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that Sipho Makhabane is not great as a singer hence he is now behind the scenes. On this album, Sechaba once again worked with Sipho, The Fish and the result is great stuff.
Sechaba fans will remember that last year he won a SAMA for his Mangihamba Nawe album. As a Sechaba fan myself, I am keeping my fingers crossed that he makes the nomination list, for now that is.
Once again, Sechaba went back to basics and the star is singing the traditional hymns we all know. There is only one song the star (or the producer) wrote in this album. The slow rythm of most of the songs will send you straight into a praise and worship mood. Abumama abaningi are running to their nearest music stores to get a copy because they are his precise target audience and youngsters enjoy his music too too. They are running to their nearest music stores especially now as Sechaba was on Gospel Time last week.
A song that I enjoy most because it makes me start communicating with God, is Thel' Umoya. You see, this song (track 4), makes me download and decode the main purpose of the Holy Spirit. As a mzalwane, this song makes me fall in love with Jesus all over again. By the time I'm on track 6, (Makadunyiswe) I am already worshipping in tongues thanking the Lord for wine from the vine and corn from the ground. Iemand is set to be a hit in many mobile churches across the country. I have two left feet but with this song, I just find myself tapping my feet and dancing already. Phela ka Sepedi we say sa kosha ke lorole meaning you can never be a bad dancer lol.
Essentially, Sechaba rises the bar with this one and your R100 will be a good investment. This time around I didn't pay for it as I got a review copy from Bula Music head quarters. Therefore, I will take the R100 and get a friend a copy for their birthday in February.
This album gets 5 stars from me!
Sechaba in the media
Sechaba's story is a true tale of from rags to riches as he dusted himself from being a dusty street dude to a recording artist. Born in Free State, Sechaba ran away from home because he didn't get along with his dad and it was pure luck that he released an album. "My father was over protective. Maybe at that time, when he was disciplining me by beating me, I saw it as abuse," Sechaba told the Move! magazine in their 8 September 2010 edition.
Sechaba also confessed to the magazine he was big on alcohol and drugs. He also confessed on Gospel Time last year that he was smoking too. He now claims he got his act together. "A pastor in Nigeria singled me out from a packed congregation and prayed for me about my smoking," he told Rebecca Malope on Gospel Time last year.
However, in Move! magazine's 8 September subsequent issue, Ntombizodwa Makhoba (Move! Jouranalist) reported that Sechaba was arrested during the week of 8 September apparently for smoking dagga (or drugs, I can't remember exactly what as I didn't buy that copy but only read it at Shoprite). After reading the story, I immediately dismissed the article as a fabrication of some sort as the source was unnamed, no case number and no comment from the police of that particular arresting officer. "O ntlwaela hampe, Modimo o tla ho bona ngwaneso!" translated as Who do you think you are, God will deal with you my sister, was what he said when the magazine contacted him for comment on the allegations.
Sechaba now has four albums under his name and his star keeps on shinning brightly despite his somewhat doggy character and we liberated Christians are only leaving the judging to The Creator. All I want is Sechaba's healing music and for him to keep on doing his work best as by now he knows bad publicity goes with the territory of being a star. Move! magazine named him and Lundi Bad Boys of Gospel. Some ladies may be disappointed to learn that Sechaba is now married and has a two-year old son.
Pictures through the lens of Bula Music