Songbird Vebrok drops Komoskodae

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent | Tuesday August 24, 2010 00:00

She has just recorded her second album, titled Komoskodae, which simply means dance.  The new album will be released next month.  The last time when she released an album was in 2008.  Now she has made a follow-up to her first album and this time she is playing a different beat.  In the debut album, she was lamenting the death of her cyclist boyfriend who was killed in a road accident after he collided with a combi in Phakalane.   The singer was clouded by emotion after she was accused of killing her boyfriend by his relatives.  This is why she penned the song how can I Kill Someone I Loved.  But in the second album, she is singing happily.

Vebrok feels that the forthcoming album is going to shake the market.  She says she has taken her time to work on the album and the results will be there for all to see.  In the album, Vebrok decided to explore her creativity by embracing other genres.  She experimented with a few music styles.  There is also a gospel track in the album as well as some bit of rhumba.  Vebrok says this time around she decided to come up with a different music style. 

She has conducted her own research and realised, which music styles are in big demand by music followers.  She discovered that the rhumba beat is popular particularly in rural areas.

Vebrok recently invited members of the press for the listening session of her House album in which she sings in Arabic and Swahili as well.  The album has 10 tracks, including the title track Komoskodae.  Others are Thusa, Ndochi, Tanki Ka Wena, Darling Wame and Oo Spacing.  

Two of the songs are done in Swahili. 

The album was recorded at Botstainment Studio in Maruapula.  It was co-produced by Petersen Mogapaesi and Morake Kama from South Africa. 

Vebrok also features South African artist, Parks Lamola.  Other artists on the album include Suggie Fisher, who does the vocals on some of the tracks.  Vebrok has also featured one of Vee's dancers 'Coming soon' who does the lyrics in some of the songs.  Unbeknown to many, the eccentric dancer is also a talented vocalist.  Vebrok has been singing since she was 10-years-old.  Her mother was a member of a top South African choir. But it was her uncle who influenced her most because he was also running a music group.  For Vebrok music is her lifetime passion.  'If you are passionate about music you will never give up.  I am passionate about music.  I am not doing music for money.  If you are not patient you would give up.  You should keep on trying,' he said.  Vebrok has also formed a stable with another local musician, Sta-Lu, which goes by the name Gabstainment.

Besides music, Vebrok is also a beautician.  She used to run beauty parlours in Gaborone and Maun.  But it is music, which she gives first priority.