BONGO FLEVA & BONGO MOVIES

LET EDUCATION GUIDE ARTISTS.

Education in everyday life is much applicable especially in this world we are living which keeps on changing every day due to advancement of science and technology.

When we talk of education in its general sense is a form of learning  in which knowledge , skills, and habits  of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching,  training, research, or simply through auto didacticism. Generally, it occurs through any experience  that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts.

So with this concept of education when we connect with the issue of music which is the art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds or both to produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion which most of the time starts by being written or scripted though sometimes other artists never write.

Though some artists take for granted that music from the talent one was gifted by God but it must be known that talent only does not make so perfect it needs to be accompanied by education either formal or informal so that an artist may know what is he or she is doing.

Music is not only the issue of singing with some instrumental within in but it deeper or more than that. Music needs research on the topic one wants to sing or presents about, some artists keep on blaming that many presenters don’t like playing or giving airtime their songs but it must be known that a presenter will never let his status to be destroyed by what he is presenting. When a presenter plays songs which have no required quality he or she will be seen as shallow presenter since the audience will recognize that presenter is just giving promo to an artist and others may go far treating a such presenter as being bribed.

When a presenter plays songs with low quality or bad test the one will be blamed is a presenter and not an artist.

It is known that many Tanzanians are not educted but as an an artist one need to go and find a college for even three months since so many colleges teaching music like at University of Dar es Salaam they have a depertment of Fine and Perfoming Art also in Bagamoyo there is TASUBA and other so many colleges

An artist need to get education on what he or she is doing for producing a good product but it must be kept in mind that not all artists should study must but an Engineer or a doctor may decide to be a music without forgetting going to special colleges to get even basic knowledge.

Some people thing Music is not a professional that it can be done by everybody but this is a wrong truth since in music there are so many things to know and do for example how to use your voice  how to pronounce words properly and not mixing words. You can find a musician composing a song just thinking on how the songs ends when he or she is singing for example one compose with words CHAKULA CHA FUKALA insteady CHAKULA CHA FUKARA.

 A Musician has to have an idea not only in singing or rapping but also in composing music instrumentals like deciding which beat should be applied which effects should be applied, buy being aware of what a musician is doing one can find easy even getting a manager because so many underground artists have been complaining of not getting people to manage in their works.

It must be known no one in this third planet can work with someone whom he as a manager does not see future, Managers are there to work with someone valuable who knows what to do at which time.

Musician should take their work seriously to gain popularity and to make people accept what they are doing. If it is just a matter of singing everybody can sing but what we need is something unique which can make someone give his time listening or pay for a show.

Since in this world of capitalism everything has changed into commodity even religious singer singer providing spiritual service but also bussines is in it, so in order to make good bussines in Music one must struggle for popularity and popularity comes from your product also connection with different people from different places. For example in Tanzania an artist Ambwene Yesaya A.Y has gained popularity out of his product and connection to different people where by nowadays social media like facebook, Nimbuz, Twitter, Instagram Whatsap and BlackBerry Messenger BBM has made this easier,

With social media now an artist can do music with another musician even without meeting physically and with social media artists like VYPA from Canada are doing good in Tanzania especially in night clubs and there is a project for  making music with some Tanzanians artists like Young Suma

So let the Musicians don’t take music just buy using their talents but education should be given a big chance for one to develop also giving chance to listern to your fans what they need or want.