Gospel Assimilation Album Hits Chart Sunday
By Klonnious Blamo & F. Momolu Dorley
Published: 28 March, 2008
Two gospel musicians from diverse backgrounds will take the stage at the City Hall this Sunday to launch their latest album “Liberia, Nigeria Praise”.
A young and inventive Fatu Davis who is synonymous with her debut album, 'Lazarus and the Richman', along with a Nigerian gospel singer, Ms. Peculliar Emegwana will stun the country with their new soul-touching praise album.
The album, Fatu accentuated, would be enticing and would capture the attention of many Liberians and Nigerians.
The album, she posited, is intended to foster African solidarity between the people of Liberia and Nigeria.
The Nigerian gospel singer, Emegwana, who is an Igbo, one of Nigeria's main linguistic groups, sang in Kpelle, Liberia's largest ethnic group.
On the other hand, Davis of the Kpelle ethnic group, sang in Igbo. The guest gospel artiste said that it was befitting to be in Liberia for such a venture.
“It is the Lord's calling,” she opined.
Some of the songs that are featured in the album are Good Elijah, Jehovah is my God, Nuele Ba Yah and Poverty, among many other tantalizing songs.
The Daily Observer’s Publisher, Kenneth Y. Best, will serve as chief launcher at the concert.
Others that will grace the occasion will be veteran politician Togbah-Nah Tipoteh and Bishop Nathaniel Zarweay of the Greater Refuge Center.
On her career, the 1979 born gospel musician said she began her now illustrious career in a Sunday school choir.
Fatu, a Baptist, averred that while in school it had always been her dream to be a top-flight gospel musician. “God had blessed me with a musical gift,” she said.
The local musical ace said she had been moved by the level of enthusiasm shown by Liberians towards the gospel music of local talents.
She intoned that if the gospel musicians were supported they would make steady progress and compete with West African musical tigers like Nigeria and Ghana.
She observed that the country has talents, but was lagging behind owing to financial constraints.
Fatu is rallying Liberians to turn out in their numbers and support her and her Nigerian counterpart.
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