Marsha
Moyo Enters MTV
Zambia’s
international singing sensation Marsha Moyo
this week enters the MTV market when the
music video channel this week began to air
Marsha’s music video Dark Child. Shot in
South Africa, the storyline of the romantic
R&B ballad shows a couple go through
the motions of a fertile romance in tandem
with Marsha’s seductive vocals.
The
Dark Child video enters the MTV market after
two years of successful airplay on Channel
O’s Soul Assylum and Lurv Jams and was Marsha’s
first video among three, the others being
Heaven’s Watching and Women Celebrated,
the latter already receiving airplay on
France’s Trace TV music channel and a nomination
as Best African Video for the 2004 Kora
Awards.
Signed
to South African label Sheer Sound distributed
by Sony/BMG, Marsha is the first Zambian
to receive airplay on MTV, Africa’s Channel
O, receive a SAMA (South African Music Award)
nomination, four Kora music award nominations,
appear on a RFI (Radio France Internationale)
compilation album, to perform at Johannesburg’s
Standard Bank Arena for Arts Alive, at the
2004 Kora awards ceremony and the world’s
first recording artist to grace the Burj-al-arab,
the only 7 star hotel in the world.
The
diva has further appeared on the KG’s Choice
compilation album alongside Erykah Badu,
and Eric Bennet and shared the FESPAM (Festival
for Pan African Music) stage in Congo Brazzaville
with several African greats such as Youssou
N’Dour, the late Brenda Fassie, and Rebecca
Malope and at Mogale Arts Festival in South
Africa, alongside Judith Sephuma, Sibongile
Khumalo and Gloria Bosman. She has appeared
on several top 10 & top 40 charts amongst
and beating, artists such as Norah Jones,
India.Arie and the king of pop, Michael
Jackson.
For
additional information www.marshamoyo.com