Celebrating Botswana's amazing one-hit wonders

Friday, October 29, 2010

They gave us amazing songs, songs of the year and brought our hearts happiness, in one album! Most of them, thank God, are not lost to music. They keep on working hard to find that elusive magic that once put them on top of their game. Here we celebrate Botswana's one hit wonders, starting with;

1: Phempeheretlhe (Lekunutu Le Morena)

It is the album that first proved that indeed local music can sell, when Phempheretlhe, who at the time was completing a diploma course in auto mechanics released what would later prove to be Botswana's first ever successful music album, as it went on to sell over 30 000 copies, according to the singer himself.

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Celebrating Botswana's amazing one-hit wonders

They gave us amazing songs, songs of the year and brought our hearts happiness, in one album! Most of them, thank God, are not lost to music. They keep on working hard to find that elusive magic that once put them on top of their game. Here we celebrate Botswana's one hit wonders, starting with;