Vusi Gets A Standing Ovation
Dumisani Ncube | Monday August 22, 2016 18:00
Last year Vusi recorded an album and DVD, Vusi Live, at the GICC in what was dubbed as one of the best red carpet musical concerts to be staged. The highly publicised concert carried a lot of professionalism, which led it to be a glittering performance.
The well set up stage, which had brilliant visuals accompanied by well engineered sound, gave more life to the concert. It took close to four days to set up the stage and everything for the concert. A live band and choir accompanied Vusi during his entire performance.
Vusi kept the audience on their feet from the moment he went on stage as he performed Ngcwele, which the audience loved to bits as they sang along, and danced. Vusi had so much energy on stage that he quickly transmitted to the audience as they sang along and danced.
In between his performance, he would preach and also narrate how he got to be the gospel artist he is. “I wanted joy and I resorted to a pen and a paper and wrote music because I could not pray.
Then God said this will be my new way of praying,” he said. By doing so, he made the audience to relate with his music much more.
Vusi’s performance was divided into two sessions. The first session was a bit relaxed as he performed calm songs such as Busetsa Tsotlhe Mo Mannong, and on the second session he came charged up wearing a designer suit.
He performed songs such as Seteng Sediba and Wa hlatjwa. The concert will not have been a success without the presence of the band and the choir that went all out as they performed with their hearts out especially when they were given a platform to stage their solo acts.
Unlike many gospel music bands that have a sound dubbed as Pentecostal sound, Vusi’s band presented a different sound, which carried some contemporary jazz element.
As a gospel artist and a minister he would also preach and say a few words praising Jesus while he was performing, “Shapela Jeso matsogo” he would say.
Upon recording and shooting the video, the music was taken for overdubbing at SABC studios in Johannesburg.