Peter Tanyanyiwa
Zimbabwean Afro-soul musician Bryan K is taking it back to where it all began!
Where? you might ask. Hold on to that question because it’s the question he answers through his new body of work, an album titled BiBo Worldwide.
BiBo is a childhood nickname Bryan K grew up with in Chinhoyi, which he fully embraces on this album as a metaphor for raw and pure expression of who he is.
BiBo Worldwide is a double album with 17 tracks. This body of work has a clear message of unity plus the celebration and projection of our version of the story to the world.
Sonically the album has that rich African soul bundled up in the many sounds and influences Bryan K grew up listening to that make up the artist he is. BiBo Worldwide has songs whose production process started as far back as 5 years ago, it’s no doubt his best work yet.
The album features Crooger, Nutty O, Anita Jaxson, Tamy Moyo ,Mo-T (Micasa), Simba Tagz and Jnr Brown.
There are songs like ‘Shaina’, ‘Kure Kure’, ‘Hupenyu’, ‘Simudza Msoro’, ‘Ita’ and ‘Dzemabwe’, among others.
Bryan K wears the ‘main producer’ cap on this project with help from many different producers of course. It was mixed by Level 8 in the UK and Audius Mtawarira in Australia.
In an interview on Wednesday Bryan K said he categorised his album as Side A and Side B and launched it separately.
“I categorised the 17 track album and split it into Side A and Side B. So Side A of the album came out on the 15th of September and side B on the 3rd of October, 2020,” he said.
“As my third Studio album, I’m over the moon with the feedback I have been getting on the latest album, BiBo Worldwide. I am also happy with where I am musically,” said Bryan K.
Bryan Kadengu is a Zimbabwean musician who was the first winner of the relaunched version of Starbrite Zimbabwe in 2012.
He has performed alongside the likes of Uhuru and Toya Delazy from South Africa, Lucius Banda from Malawi, Young Fathers from the United Kingdom and Mokoomba from Zimbabwe.
He started his music career at school at the age of nine and professionally after leaving school. After winning the StarBrite show, he performed in Chinhoyi as he shared the stage with Oliver Mtukudzi, Busi Ncube, Roger Mbambo and other artistes each time they came to Chinhoyi. He also performed for students at Chinhoyi University Hotel.
The ‘Heavy Machine’ hitmaker has now released three albums, including his debut offering Nyaya DzeRudo (2015), followed by Evolution K (2018) and his latest eight-track project Bibo Worldwide.