Vee, JahPrayzah show put on ice
Thato Kala | Wednesday March 26, 2014 16:17
Vee was billed to perform in Harare on April 16 and 17, but that will not be case.
Any visiting performer in Zimbabwe is required to apply for a performance permit a month before the event.
It appears the organisers of the show delayed to apply and with only three weeks left before the show it will be impossible to get it.
“He was to perform there with Jah Prayzah but because of the performance permit he can no longer make it.
Apparently, the permit should be applied for four weeks before the event, but in this case that was not done,” said his management.
Jah Prayzah has hits like Tsviriyo, Ngwarira Kuparara and Sisiria that always keep revellers on their feet and would have pulled good crowds for Vee.
Vee had hoped to push his song Baba – a song associated with a popular sect Vapostori in Zimbabwe.
According to Dr Tawanda, who featured in the song, it is getting a lot of airplay in the neighbouring country and live performances in Harare would have seen that double.
Despite being born again Christian, Vee’s video package of his new album Supernatural Volume 1 shows that his style has not changed much.
He has changed lyrics, but still dishes out fast flowing and well-choreographed dancing moves that appeal to the youthful.
His musical journey that started in 2003 with the release of his debut album Lamalanga, which was based on the kwaito genre is now taking another dimension. In his new videos, the pint-sized entertainer shows maturity and devotion to Christianity.
His Zimbabwe fans will remember him for his October 2007 show that was hosted by the Zimbabwean Tourism Authority to help the ailing tourism industry in the country.
Towards the end of his performance at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC), the pint-sized artist invited two female fans, one of them the then reigning Miss Rural Nyanga, on stage to dance to his hit song Taku Taku.
He shocked his audience when he and his dancers just fell short of performing lurid sexual acts on stage.