 Marsha
Moyo Enters MTV
Zambia’s
international singing sensation Marsha Moyo this week enters the MTV
market when the music video channel this week began to air Marsha’s
music video Dark Child. Shot in South Africa, the storyline
of the romantic R&B ballad shows a couple go through the motions of
a fertile romance in tandem with Marsha’s seductive vocals. The
Dark Child video enters the MTV market after two years of
successful airplay on Channel O’s Soul Assylum and Lurv Jams and was
Marsha’s first video among three, the others being Heaven’s Watching
and Women Celebrated, the latter already receiving airplay on
France’s Trace TV music channel and a nomination as Best African
Video for the 2004 Kora Awards.
Signed to
South African label Sheer Sound distributed by Sony/BMG, Marsha is
the first Zambian to receive airplay on MTV, Africa’s Channel O,
receive a SAMA (South African Music Award) nomination, four Kora
music award nominations, appear on a RFI (Radio France
Internationale) compilation album, to perform at Johannesburg’s
Standard Bank Arena for Arts Alive, at the 2004 Kora awards ceremony
and the world’s first recording artist to grace the Burj-al-arab,
the only 7 star hotel in the world. The diva has further appeared on
the KG’s Choice compilation album alongside Erykah Badu, and Eric
Bennet and shared the FESPAM (Festival for Pan African Music) staged
in Congo Brazzaville with several African greats such as Youssou
N’Dour, the late Brenda Fassie, and Rebecca Malope and at Mogale
Arts Festival in South Africa, alongside Judith Sephuma, Sibongile
Khumalo and Gloria Bosman. She has appeared on several top 10 & top
40 charts amongst and beating, artists such as Norah Jones,
India.Arie and the king of pop, Michael Jackson.
Two and a half
years in the business, two months ago Marsha released her second CD
offering Women Celebrated. Written, composed and produced by Marsha,
the CD is a six track single with each musically most indigenous to
the six continents of the world. Accompanying the song is a CD
booklet with approved participation and biographical features on
five female world figures and from each, a personal statement on
encouragement in pursuit of goals. The foreword is graced by Her
Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan who is of both North American and
Middle Eastern heritage while the women featured are Scientist Jane
Goodall PhD, DBE from Europe, Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi of Asia, internationally heralded Author Marjorie Agosin PhD of
South America, one of Africa’s most renowned freedom fighters in
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and sports woman extraordinaire,
Australian Kay Cottee, AO. Already following in the footsteps of
Dark Child, Women Celebrated has already earned Marsha two
nominations in the categories of Best Female Artist Southern Africa
and Best African Video for the Kora 2004 and a performance of the
song during the award ceremony televised to an estimated audience of
700 million.
In
existence for the last 23 years, MTV has been both a launch pad and
home to several international stars such as Madonna, Celine Dion,
Whitney Houston, U2 and
Benin’s
Angelique Kidjo and will undoubtedly avail Marsha another platform
to increase her ever-growing fan base. For more information,
www.marshamoyo.com
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June 2005