The news might not be as big as it was last year when Malawi Prison Band was nominated for Best World Album at the 58th Grammy awards. Courtesy of Grammy-winning producer, Ian Brennan and his wife, Italian photographer and filmmaker, Marilena Delli, Malawi got a Grammy nomination for the first time in music history. Contrary […]
Malawi’s Zomba Prison Project on Monday failed to win the Grammy award but they have put a mark in the music industry’s world most prestigious prize with their highly innovative nominee under the best world music album category which was won by Angelique Kidjo at the gala ceremony in Los Angeles. Kidjo, Beninese-born singer based […]
A band made up of inmates from one of Malawi’s most congested prisons in Zomba which secured the country’s first Grammy nomination will not be at the Grammy Awards because the prisoners’ legal cases make international travel impossible, according to American music producer Ian Brennan. The 2016 Grammys take place in Los Angeles, in United […]
For the first time ever, Malawi has been nominated for the 58th Grammy Awards, revealed on Monday and are scheduled to take place in Los Angeles in February. Interestingly, it is no celebrated musician nominated from Malawi, but a prison music group known as Zomba Prison Project. This is a band from the Zomba Maximum […]