In fact two months ago, she announced at Grand-West Club in Gaborone that her album would be in stores the following week. Recently she was reported as having told a Tlokweng audience that she would be featured in a Brenda tribute album coming soon, but as yet nothing is in stores.
Contacted for comment about her delayed music project, Sedumedi refused to say what is withholding her album. She could only say that the album would be out before the end of the year. Asked to say what the title of the album would be or whether she would be featuring any known music stars, Sedumedi said that remains her secret until she decides to call a press conference.
She could not say when the press conference would be called. Sedumedi’s production experienced a slow-down since she announced she was working with South African producer Sello Twala early last year.
However, she volunteered the information that she is not actually signed to Twala, but is in fact signed to EMI, one of the biggest recording labels in the world. On whether EMI would distribute her previously recorded three albums, she said she couldnot answer that because the question was a bit problematic.
“Everything, including that question and the accusations that I am a Brenda copy-cat will be answered at my press conference.”
Sedumedi has failed to release an album since she joined the South African recording company last year, although there have been speculations that her voice may have been featured in a posthumous Brenda Fassie release early this year. Sedumedi’s fans are baffled that their star still resides in Botswana after she announced she had secured a record deal with a South African company. However nothing has changed and Sedumedi is still fighting for the crumbs with local musicians.
It would seem more and more questions about Sedumedi’s deal with the South African company are growing every day. Was there ever a deal signed? That question will only be answered when Sedumedi finally decides to call her press conference.
