Biography
Zambian television and radio commercials have long relied on the Sakala Brothers’ compositions as familiar background material. Their catalog features the “Angoni Theme Song” and “Puteni Ichimela,” the latter a bittersweet homage to the Zambian national soccer team. At the Lukesha Playhouse Theater the Sakala Brothers shared a multinational stage with Zambian musician Brian Zanji, the Zambian vocal group Amashiwi, and British musicians Nathan Thompson and Sarah Robins. The concert inaugurated a week-long Zambia-United Kingdom Cooperation celebration and was subsequently issued on CD as ODI in 1999. In December 2000 the Sakala Brothers, alongside Keith Mutale and St. Michael, were presented with a Ngome award from Africa Alive! as “the most socially conscious artist in the fight against AIDS.”