Keith Mlauzi/Nigel Siziba, Sunday Life Reporters
IT’S not about giving back if you’re successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it’s about your responsibility to help others, it’s about how much you have contributed to the lives of others.
This has been the defining line for Nomalanga Tshuma who is into mining and is also a musician.
They say music is a road to fame and money, but not for Nomalanga who chooses to look at it in a different light as making money is not on her top list. She says charity is her first priority.
The songbird launched her debut album; Your Grace on the eve of Christmas and says she will be giving away her royalties from the album.
“I am not into music for the money but I want to help the girl child, through my lyrics I’m relaying a message of hope and empowerment, most of all I want to give out my royalties to charity,” she said.
Her eight-track album is meant to bring back renewed hope to the hopeless.
“Basically this project is about God’s grace, it touches on day-to-day suffering of people but it brings hope to people even though they are on the rough patch, God will always provide,” she explained.
The songstress said she began singing at a very tender age and helping the needy has always been top of her priorities in life.
“I began singing when I was very young, music is what I live and breathe, so it’s something that has always been part of my life as far as I remember,” said Tshuma.
Tshuma hopes to get much international recognition for her initiative to give power to the girl child.
“My wishes are to take my girl child empowerment programmes to the whole of Africa and teach other musicians that it’s not always about making money but putting smiles of people’s faces,” she concluded.