Upcoming Musician Nompilo Bemoans Lack Of Funding In Music Industry

Nompilo together with her husband have always had a habit of singing together at home. Lanso Nompilo's husband is an upcoming dancehall artist while to Nompilo it has also been a passion ever since. Nompilo had always had a passion in music but she never found the opportunity to record. Her husband Lenso also was reserved with her taking music seriously.

When growing up Nompilo' mother did not support her due to an incident that embarrassed her. Sometime back when Nompilo was in grade 5 she attracted ZBC news crew to their house so that they could profile her. She failed to sing as expected and the session was adjourned. Ever since her mother discouraged her.

Nompilo grew up in the suburb of Mufakose listening to South African house music which inspired her to settle for Afro Pop though currently she hasn't any album to her name. Nompilo took advantage of lockdown to record some songs. Vana vangu, takafanana, Ndaikuda, Hausikuda, Nguva iye and Anondida are some of the songs she is releasing soon.

She says after composing songs with her husband she heard him trying to recruit other females singers to record her songs since he was against her taking up music seriously. This did not go down well with Nompilo and it pushed her to go and record herself since they were her songs.

I asked her what her challenges were since she was still starting. Funding is one of her biggest difficulty; recording, making videos and wardrobe needs a lot of money to bring quality. Nompilo bemoaned the disappearance of recording companies in our country that invested in talent. Concentration on creativity becomes compromised as there will be divided attention in sourcing funds and composing songs.

Nompilo's immediate worry is to produce good songs and assemble a band. She would like to take her music to every corner of our country. She also would like to challenge for honours within our borders and outside our country.

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