Mmasonoko Video Premiers Red Carpet Style
Sharon Mathala | Monday April 18, 2016 16:00
The album became an instant jazz hit subsequently receiving accolades for the best female artist and best album of the year at the Botswana Musician Union (BOMU) Awards that year. She finally launched the video of the song. In the video, she portrays a young couple who are trying to get married, but the families failing to agree on the bride price.
The traditional set up gives the video the look and feel of a traditional Botswana wedding. At the launch, Nnunu who came dressed like a true African gem, explained the four-year wait for her hit single’s video. She explained that after dropping and promoting the single that year she had thought she would shoot the the following year.
“The next year I had a tour to Europe alongside my fellow jazz female artists, Women of Jazz. The first day we arrived I played football and I fractured my knee, at all the shows I had to perform sitting down,” Nnunu explained. When she returned home after spending sometime in Europe, the Mmaonoko singer says she then took time off to heal, but another tour was in the cards.
Before she knew it three years had passed, but late last year she vowed that she would shoot the music video beginning of this year.
Fielding questions from the media, Nnunu says that the Women of Jazz; Kearoma Rantao and Punah Gabasiame, had to each take a break to release songs individually, but now that the three-woman band has done so, they will now be working on a joint venture. “The Women of Jazz are very much still alive.
We are together, as you can see they are all here to support me. Support for one another is something we value. We will definitely be working on something as a group in the near future,” she said.
The night ended at the Absolute Elyx Lounge with Nnunu belting out some of her works from the album. She also performed the song of the night, Mmasonoko, live.