At the moment Nomza says he takes his performances to Marang Hotel and Tati Nickel Mining Clubhouse. In his new 10-track album Ke Kgale (O ile) he has a track dedicated to Botswana Metal Refinery (BMR).
"The track is called Activox and it is dedicated to BMR. I sang the song at the launch and its message is basically to applaud the development and the new technology," he said. Nomza says that he has been working on the album since last year.
This album is afro-pop with a touch of gospel and listening to it one would easily think that they have stumbled upon a John Mokhali classic.
Nomza told Showbiz that this album is about joy, bitterness, being persistent.
"It is just an album meant to motivate," he said. He further talked about the title track saying that it was zooming in on this modern society and the way they treat children.
"We have a tendency of dumping children on our parents and going to towns and cities, and that is okay but the song is talking about those of us who do not come back or go back to the children," he said.
His live-band track record dates back to 1992 when he was still with Nomza and Bwasa Stars.
"I was with them before they were KUPS and Bwasa Stars. It was the first band but I left in 1994 when I joined the prisons band," he said. Nomza said that he left the prisons band in 1999 and that is when he decided to go solo.
"When I left the prisons band I went to Maun and performed at Maun Lodge for some months and then I left for Gantsi where I did the same thing but finally left in 2002," he added. He moved to Francistown in 2003 and has been going strong since. Nomza is a great believer in live performances.
"I believe in people judging me by seeing real talent, unedited and not assuming that what they are seeing is real," he said. Listening to this album, it would be difficult to believe that he did everything on his own.
"I did absolutely everything. There was only one lady friend who helped me with some of the vocals. I did the drums, the trumpets and the vocals. I recorded out of my home studio and even mastered my own music from there," he said.
Nomza, who served with the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) for about three years, says that he got into afro-pop about five years ago because he felt it was marketable as compared to other genres.
"It's also not as demanding as maybe, blues chords or orchestra," he says.
Nomza says he can express himself better with music.
"I have passion for music. My mother was a singer and a schoolteacher in South Africa. She taught music and helped schools even after she retired. Music was in the home so I was exposed to music as early as 1978," he says. He says that he used to sing with his mother and sisters in church, fund-raising for community projects and concerts.
