�Light skinned� Lucas, lights the path
Chippa Legodimo | Thursday May 7, 2015 14:58
Perhaps Lucas was God sent to deliver the message through his music…
The Zionist musician’s recent release Thapelo demonstrates his strong belief that only God can solve the earth’s problems, contrary to the believe held by some that pastors heal. On the track Zion, he reaffirms God as the beginning and end of everything.
While most musicians who opt to go with the Mkhukhu brand of gospel often sound similar, something separates Lucas from the rest because, unlike many who often find themselves ‘trying to be iconic Oleseng Shuping’, Lucas strives to be his original self without molding his voice to resemble anyone’s.
The musician based most of his songs on some stand out bible verses, relaying the actual messages through his music. Like a church pastor during an intense service, on the track Toro, the musician reads from Genesis 41, which interprets king Pharaoh’s weird dream where he saw seven thin cattle consume seven fat beasts, and how Joseph explained that God was sending a message to the king to prepare for a drought of seven years in Egypt.
Buttressed with a low rhythm keyboard and percussions as well as carefully controlled tenor on the backing vocals, this track has a touching vibrating melody that captures one’s imagination.
Another track likely to push the musician up the popularity stakes is Batho Ba Hedile in which he once appeals to the higher power to have mercy on mankind.
The track decries the problems besieging the world like HIV/AIDS, Ebola and the rifts between people of different religions, clashes which have resulted in the loss of many lives.
It might be too early to sing Lucas’s praise, but with such a powerful voice, it’s unlikely that he would dismally fail the litmus test.