A Conversation with .... Matchume Zango

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Hello Mum, it's a real pleasure to have you in Brod again. Um, and maybe few people know your full name and also I think little or just certain things about your professional career. Everybody knows you are the Tempula player from uh from Mozambique, but you're also doing a lot of other things. So, it would be really a pleasure to learn more about your professional career. Yeah, thank you for inviting me. Um, I always feel home to be back to university and working with cluster. And my name, my official name, uh, from the school or from my IDs, it's Gandido Salomo Zango. But my traditional name, not it's not artist name. It's just a normal name. It's Machu Zango. Why is Machu Zango? because mach was the grandfather of my mother. So this is like kind of um uh in Africa we have this kind of culture heritage names. So then we keep this traditional name. So mach comes from the family and also if you there's a meaning of mach >> when you say when we count in our traditional language when we say So when you say ch means 10. >> Mhm. >> When you say mach means many tens. >> Okay. >> And um people they use also asking why your your name it means zango. In fact it's not zango. It's in zango. >> But since the push case they didn't have zango. They took out the N and then we just stay with Zango. But >> Zango, it's a female name from the community where I come from in Inyan. >> The area is calling in Zanguin. >> So everyone that is born in that area get the the the name has a get the name of that area. >> So I'm Mum Zango because my parents are from this area. So that's how my name >> came out and um as my music background I growing up playing uh Timila because my parents they were Timila's players from old generations from my grandfather generations and then my father um immigrate to Maputo but even like that they came with the music in uh >> in Maputo. So they were not living in the city but staying on the suburbs. So there was some other families choppy families around. So… Read the full text about 5,898 words