About
Music of Malawi is brought to you by the people behind the Lake of Stars international music festival. Its first aim is to collate information and links on artists that have played the festival or will be playing it in the future, giving festival-goers and indeed anyone with an interest in the scene an online source of the best Malawian music.
Part of the Lake of Stars’ mission is to help develop the music industry in Malawi. Hopefully this site will help raise the profile of the artists featured, enable people to find out more about artists they have seen and loved, and perhaps discover others they have never heard of.
You should be able to find photos, biographies, media and links to further information for most of the artists featured here, and feel free to use the comment sections below to discuss the artists.
Have a look around, and use this site as a launch pad for your exploration of Malawian music. The site needs to get input from artists and audiences to enable to achieve our mission, so again please feel free to comment on what we have or suggest other artists that we should feature.
You need to have Young Kay on this as far as now goes he is number one, you can’t talk urban music in Malawi and skip his name. Barry One also needs to be up on this, Dare Devils, Goodson Gomonda has also been influential to Malawi music and most probably considered a legend, Overton Chimombo, The Basement, Mahara, Tiwonge Mhango, Lucius Banda
How can you talk about malawian music and not include the duo SELAH, http://www.myspace.com/selahmusik, they are the best on any given level as far as malawian talent is concerned. And then there is also http://www.myspace.com/yesayamusic. check them out and tell me what you think. Simply Amazing!!!
Laura
I agree but as an oldman of the new generation Malawians, I want to nominate 2 real legends of arts and crossover music. One is based abroad and one in Malawi and they are the artists young Malawians should aspire to;
In Malawi – Lucius Banda website: http://www.spock.com/Lucius-Banda
Internationally – Pax Nindi aka Harare Dread website: http://www.hararedread.net
Thanks Chitete
New York Youth Music
it is actually fun to be on music festivals because i love music so much “”
Lucius Banda should be on this list – legendary music and a legendary man.
Yes, Lucius Banda should be on this list – too.
And what about Ben Michael?
Greets from Germany
Lina
Your history should mention Jack Allison a Peace Corps volunteer in the late 60′s who wrote and recorded, with the Jazz Giants, songs like Ufa wa mtedza which promoted child nutrition. He was one of the most popular recording artists in Malawi for several years.
Hey webmaster! thanks for the info!
If you are also interested in up and coming Malawian artists, not necessarily famous, but still talented then I think you should consider looking at “Tha OneShot Shogan.” Here are the links you can access his music from or contact him: http://www.reverbnation.com/shogan http://www.facebook.com/oneshotshogan & http://www.twitter.com/oneshotshogan. Otherwise I think this site is great for Malawian music. Good job.
Hey Guys have a listen to my music at http://www.facebook.com/HazelMakMusic Iam an up and coming singer/songwriter.Please feel free to leave comments, thank you.
I recomend Khama Kandiado she is upcoming gospel music and her music is doing really good