Pompi made a grand entrance to Nyimbo at around 9.30 pm. The crowd that was already tired, recharged as everyone sang along.
Live performances had started at 2pm, but when Pompi stepped on the stage it was like the start of the event. After Nyimbo, Pompi performed Simplified, with the masterclass backup of A ka Dope band. The song was released in 2014 from his second album Broken English. Fans sang along, word for word.
He also did Packaging from his 2012 album MIZU. Even though the song is filled with Zambia’s Bemba and Nyanja languages, it is a big hit here and House singer in awe.
Eugene, the drummer from A ka Dope band put on an outstanding worshippers understand its message perfectly. For about 10 minutes nonstop, the crowd was chanting Pompi’s name and asking for an encore, and they went wild when he returned with Mulungu Samagona pali iwe daily, which means ‘the Lord does not sleep, He’s with you daily’.
The similarities of our local languages and Zambian dialects made the show all the sweeter. The song had many fans in tears, imagining where God has brought them from, in a moment of true worship.
He then sang Hygiene, before concluding his set with his Ugandan fans’ favourite, Giant Killer. It is the song that introduced Pompi to Africa as a transformed artiste from secular music to the gospel genre.
The crowd was singing hiphop lyrics in Nyanja and Bemba, leaving the Lota performance as if he had collaborated with Pompi before. Pompi, real name, Chaka Nyathando, was born in Lusaka and started his music career when he was sixteen.
He became a born-again Christian and switched direction, dropping the Nigerian label he was with to found a ministry called Lota House, or ‘house of dreamers’.
Together with artistes such as Abel Chungu (Ichitemwiko), Tio and Mag44 they make a team that spreads the Gospel to different demographics in different countries.
Before Pompi, there were other gospel artistes that performed including Nigeria’s Limo Blaze, who later gushed about Ugandans’ love. Ugandans Levixone and Coopbly, among others, also performed.
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