Elemotho Gaalelekwe Richardo Mosimane. Vocalist and Guitarist
For someone who would rather have been a priest, farmer or lawyer, Elemotho Gaalelekwe is one young man whose life is still a dream in the making. Because according to him life has changed a lot since he started showing interest in music in 1997,as a second year student at UNAM. The idea was to study something that would provide a living later in life, and as he was one of the lucky ones to reach tertiary education, music should have been something to avoid, but fate had a stronger hand, and music had a more convincing aura. Not being able to resist, Elemotho started hanging around with the campus musicians, a group then known as the “The Legends”, later to be called “UNAM Band” and finally “Tcoqma”. While studying African philosophy and psychology at university, this artist from the Kalahari moved from doing cover versions in the period of a year to lead vocals and performing his own songs. He has performed extensively both in the capital city of Namibia (Windhoek) and around the country. In 1999 won two Music Makers prizes with his former band “Tcoqma”. After the band members moved on into different ways he decided to focus on his own musical career. With support of the Franco Namibian Cultural Center (FNCC), Elemotho recorded his solo album “The system is a joke”. A mixture between social commentary, a celebration of local Namibian and African reality and a certain degree of spirituality. As Elemotho also comes from a both a theatrical and visual art background, the artist has taken time to also perform solo, both locally and internationally, as well as exploring music using the influences of these other artistic disciplines. It is in this regard that the artist has also written sound tracks for both theater and film, of which some of his credits include “Mogomotsimang” musical theatre piece preformed in Hannover, Germany for the Expo 2000. He also composed, music for local films such as Big mouth, Open minds and the popular Namibia series, Savannah Stories. Other than that, the artist also plays with a seven piece band of which there is a bass and electric guitars, Mbira (African thumb piano), flute, drum kit and African percussions and backing vocalist for harmonies, although sometimes other instruments are also used.
Contact
Silvia Sala: "silsagi arroba hotmail.com"
Elemotho: "elemotho arroba hotmail.com"
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