Tshwane reggae artist ‘perfecting’ new album
Carlos Djedje has performed at the Penang World Music Festival in Malaysia as well as the Africa Festival in Würzburg, Germany.
Legendary reggae musician, Carlos Djedje is in the studio working on a new single.
The new single, Black Supremacy, will officially be released in the next few months.
“We are currently working on perfecting the album. I worked very hard on the album, I’m sure my fans and reggae music lovers in general will enjoy and welcome it,” said Djedje.
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Since the fall of apartheid in the early 1990s, he has remained active quietly going about his task to educate and liberate through reggae.
“I decided to call the album Black Supremacy now that Afreeka is free from Ghana to South Afreeka,” he said.
His music continues to take him around the world.
“I am the happiest man that my single will be soon in the market, I’m working with Boogieman Moshidi and he is doing justice to the single,” said Djedje.
Now in his mid-60s, in 2014 he performed at the Penang World Music Festival in Malaysia as well as the Africa Festival in Würzburg, Germany.
“The message in this single album is that from Cape to Cairo, from Morrocco to Madagascar, Afreeka should take her rightful place in the global village.”
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He said when the chairperson of the Afreekan Union honorable the President of Rwanda pronounced that now is the time that Afreeka must have its own currency, he could not agree more.
“This will help Afreeka to be free from the market exploitation and Afreeka will compete with the Euro, the dollar and the pound”.
He said he was pleased with a young lady, Corne Visser who blew his mind by playing the two soulful month instruments.
“Flute and saxophone, I never thought she would play this difficult song Tikulandirani Ku Afreeka. Meaning welcome to Afreeka, this song I was inspired by Fella Ramson Kuti.”
Some of the tracks that are contained on the album include King Inna De Jungle, Tikulandirani Kumar Afreekan, Love Chemistry and Children children.
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