Viber Public Chat with Rosah-Joy
by Phil Chard
The African Hip Hop Blog was chosen as one of Viber’s launch partners when they launched their new Viber Public Chat feature a few months back. Since it began we have experienced tremendous growth and engagement on the platform. We use our Viber public chat as a forum to allow for discussion and debate cantered around the African music industry and the culture. We encourage anyone interested in getting the latest news and opinions from influential voices across the continent to follow along. If you would like to be part of the debates and contribute, please get hold of me on twitter @PhilChard.or the blog @africanhhb
This week for our Viber Public Chat we interview Zambian artist Rosah-Joy.
Review : Rosah-Joy – Pressed EP
by Phil Chard
The best thing about being a music blogger is the rare occasion when someone introduces you to an artist so impressive you are angry with yourself for not discovering them sooner. That is the feeling I experienced when I was sent the new EP by Rosah-Joy titled Pressed.
Rosay-Joy is an artist that fuses Hip Hop, R&B, Soul and Spoken Word into her music to produce an incredible product. Born in the Southern Province of Zambia and raised in Queenstown, South Africa who then went onto attain a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Art Institute of Washington. This eclectic mixture of cultures all play a help in shaping the artistic identity of her music. Her delivery has the distinctive cadence of a Zambian (I can’t explain it but when you talk to a Zambian you will understand), that fuses the isiXhosa she learned in South Africa and the Western influence that paints her style and accent.
I did a brief Tweetview (Review on Twitter, see what I did there?) of Rosah’s latest offering. In summary it is a massively impressive project that takes the listener on a brief and emotional ride from the vantage of a woman as she speaks about the emotional experience of dealing with a failing relationship.
Rosah - Pressed Tweetview - Curated tweets by AfricanHHB