A Happy new year from us. Enjoy your 2017 a new page to start all over again with Favour and Grace!!

Merry Christmas to all of you from US. Enjoy time with family. Our Christ was born today!!

I am a year older today,Praise Jesus!!. My birthday always brings a different feeling from the expected excitement of a year added on to my life,Instead i begin reflecting so much on the GRACE upon my life and a little portion of fear takes grip of my conscience.Many people of my age,former classmates and street mayes have died,many havent received Christ up to now,many are still struggling so much to have a"normal" life but Eish,this God of Mercy allowed me to have a beautiful calm and collected wife,an ever caring Mother,my lovely blood brothers and sisters,Most valued friends i have made all these years who stand by me.....Behold what manner of love is this?
I miss the mark and He still calls me the apple of His eye,i make mistakes and he tells me ,my MERCIES are new everymorning.

May i have your ear God just for a minute.....In the name of Jesus Christ i love you and i thank you for a year that has been added on this life.

Today Chalenam will be playing at USA Zim achievers Awards.Lets all meet there and celebrate Zimbabweans who have done well.

Wondering if people still enjoy "live shows" that much,since everyone seems to have turned to be a camera men.One can't dance anymore because they will be filming the whole concert with their smart phone kikikiki.

Now it gets worse in church when the Spirit of the Lord is moving and people enjoying being in the presence but some will be stark on the smartphone filming every bit of it.Could I be the one not moving with the times or I just have to be at the other side of the stage to understand this?

When i tell you, I Love You, I dont say it out of habit or to make conversation, I say it to remind you that YOU ARE THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME!!

CHALENAM RHYTHMS will be worshiping in Mckinney Texas, USA Sunday 6 November from 10AM Dallas Texas time.
Invite a friend invite a family ,Come and experience the African worship with us!!!
RCCG THRONE OF GRACE PARISH IN MCKINNEY TEXAS with Pastor Patrick Mejeidu!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ53V5pQOZc

#FavourandGrace is the 3rd song on our album Goodness
We are acknowledging the love and favour of God, that to have the sun shine and a shelter above my head, that’s the meaning of Favour and Grace
Friday 28 October 2016 4pm CAT and 9am USA Dallas Texas Time Favour and Grace video release.

Tonight, once again at Harvest Int Church from 8pm - 12 midnight... Come let us praise him!!

Watch the video of our USA performance at Harvest International Church!!

Last week Sunday 9 October 2016 we worshiped God the African way at Harvest International Church in Dallas Texas in USA

In the United States, Dallas Texas (At People of Faith Ministry, 724 S Jupiter Rd Garland TX 75042) on the 24th of September 2016 A Night of Worship with Mai Banda and Chalenam Rhythms.
Chalenam Rhythms all the way from Zimbabwe will be ministering. They will teach on the integrated African way of Worship!
Come ready to Experience African Worship from Zimbabwe!!
*Admission is Free*
Be ready to donate something to Mai Banda Outreach Ministries towards welfare of orphans in Zimbabwe.
For more details contact maibandaoutreach@gmail.com

Contact: maibandaoutreach@gmail.com or tiarrabanda@gmail.com 469 288 6190

Wishing you a peaceful, safe holiday on Monday and Tuesday.
We are performing with a full band at 99 Parklane Street (opposite Harare gardens near NSSA) on Tuesday the 9th of August 2016 from 3pm - 4:30. Preaching by Apostle B Java and Bishop Tudor Bismark on Monday and Tuesday....
Join us, The Charambas and Minister Michael Mahendere (GPWG) will also be there!!

We had Vocal training by Nam, Song Composition by Chale, Guitar lesson by Never Mpofu. Great participation from an amazing audience. Thank you Thank you!! We had fun.‪#‎chalenam5‬

In todays' Hmetro an article on our music journey and FREE concert tomorrow 2 July 2016 at Zimbabwe College of Music from 2pm to 6pm. See you tomorrow!!

Saturday Event- We are promising an exciting encouraging musical journey of Charles and Namatayi Chipanga. This is a day to Celebrate Chalenam Rhythms’ 5th anniversary. The band has people who have their music careers spanning over 30yrs such as Never Mpofu(Chalenam Bassist), Namatayi Chipanga(13years), Charles Chipanga (21yrs of professional career) but after their departure from Tuku music, they have 5years together. We have release 3 albums to date, Prayer Expose' 2011(Charles Chipanga), Grace Moments 2013(Namatayi Chipanga), Goodness 2015(Charles Chipanga.

There will be short interactive workshops on BRANDING, MARKETING, SONG COMPOSITION,PRODUCTING,SOUND ENGINEERING,VOCAL TRAINING. Basically we will be giving back for free the services people usually pay for when hiring us. How we come up with a song, how we conduct rehearsal, how we market our songs, how a song is composed, what music production is...all this is to add knowledge to the young musicians who are being ushered into the main stream from College of music, those in church choirs and those who wish to take music seriously. There will also be a braai to make it a family fun day out…

The journey has been a mixture of steep episodes and some flowing moments. We have learnt to do things on our own, to write a song, practice it, record it, look for ways to market it, promote your own show and be the main act on the very show, so all this has been found in the past 5yrs. The experience we got while working with other people has really helped us go through this smoothly.

 

In Celebration of our 5th anniversar next Saturday 2 July 2016 at 2pm -6pm we will be at Zimbabwe College of Music. We are doing a FREE concert and FREE workshops on vocals, sound engineering, Music composition. Bring the whole family. Registering for lessons wil also be done on this day!‪#‎chalenam5‬

We have been having most of our public shows at ZGS.
This is a message From the Director at Zimbabwe German Society and Team- Taremeredzwa "Tare" Chirewa

As the ZGS we have had only positive experiences with Chalenam. Whenever they have a show with us they have been professional in their dealings, on time with their marketing of the event and have always drawn out a crowd making the space lively and exciting. Congratulations on your 5th anniversary and we wish you many more.

This June we celebrate our 5th anniversary as CHALENAM RHYTHMS.
5TH anniversary is an important milestone in a couple's life together more so with us in our music career together. After five years together, we have formed a strong bond. We have gone through a lot but we have grown in strength and stability.
Exciting activities this June with us. Stay tuned!!
‪#‎chalenam5‬

Codza Chimuka launched his 3rd Album on the 29th of May and Charles Chipanga was the Guest of honor. A wonderful album produced by Gwenya-gitare Mono added to the Christian world!
Advice given to Codza by Charles was "Please take your work seriously from recording, and when you perform on stage do your very best because the audience only gives you ONE chance to WOW them"
Well done Codza!! Thank you to ALL who came and supported, the Gospel needs unity!

This is the studio that mixed the GOODNESS album right in Capetown.Paris was behind the desk and making everything sound clean and sweet.uuum this man has a serious ear, just give him a try PARIS STUDIOS - Bookings: 021-7821971 / parisandgill@wam.co.za / Owner/ Engineer: Paris Zannos, 84 Highway rd, Fish Hoek, Western Cape, South Africa

http://www.financialgazette.co.zw/why-it-is-important-to-attend-a-music-concert-to-every-living-soul/

WHY ITS IMPORTANT TO ATTEND A MUSIC CONCERT TO EVERY LIVING SOUL.

Music has always had a therapeutic effect on every living soul that many people haven’t mastered over the years. It’s never enough to listen to a song or your favourite music or even the music that you do not understand through a radio. It is unfortunate that Zimbabwe has less than 40 percent outgoing people who have really connected with the soul of an artist or the soul of a musical piece.

After years of listening to Lucky Dube on radio, when I finally had a chance to watch his music video , I put a face to the music and everything started making sense and boom the connection was there. Same  thing happened when I listened to this youthful outfit called Chalenam Rhythms, my first impressions were that ‘Gospel Music’ is the same , repetitive choruses that I used to sing when I was young and there was nothing new on offer but this Percussive jazz approach to music made me think twice. Technology has really made life even easier to put a face to music; YouTube, live streaming and Facebook has made people find it easy to put a face to the music and understand it better. Most Zimbabwean artists are now concentrating on live DVDs which is generally a way to put face to the  good music that people are listening to everyday.

It is the same reason why music will never be 100percentage a universal language Chipanga said. Generally you can’t appreciate artists more when you haven’t had an up-close and personal encounter with them on stage, when they put action and explanation to their music in a relaxed environment.

I do not want to get into a debate whether or not the language a song is written to makes a song universal or not. I want to focus entirely on the music, the NOTES themselves. Think "classical" music, for example, most of which are entirely wordless. I often listen to a radio that plays classical music, and they often describe before or after that what setting the music was written to - like theatre plays, dramas, operas, etc. The feeling they transmit might be understood by the one's watching the play at the moment. To me, as the radio listener, however, some tracks don't make sense for the described settings, at all.

Some tones or melodies might have a certain connotation to them, like violins can make you grasp the feeling of deep, desperate longing, as well as tell stories of fidelity, festivities and dancing people, depending on the way they're played. Music can tell stories - but the story we perceive is entirely subjective, depending on our upbringing, experiences, memories associated with certain notes/strings of notes or our current moods. Listening to a piece of music, ripped out of its original "habitat" - which is for example, the theatrical play it was written for - can make the listener imagine an entirely different set of events or invoke different emotions in different people. Music cannot evoke the same memory or deliver the same story that the "author" thought of when composing the tune to whoever listens - in fact, some pieces of music can only be understood or appreciated by people schooled in the subject, while to other it makes no sense at all.

Music cannot deliver the same message or imperative when repeated to different people.

"Dance to your hearts delight" is something you might be able to translate in a piece of music by the  way the score is written or the way it is played.

"Go and fetch me the newspaper", however, might be easily translated into music, but not everyone you would play the notes for such an imperative to would understand the message immediately, not even schooled people.

Even emotional queues might not be caught the same way. Music CAN invoke emotions in people, connotations to memories they had or fire up their fantasies. But they will be different in each one of us. Thus i do not believe it is a universal kind of language.

Chalenam rhythms will put a face to their music on Saturday 9 April at the Zimbabwe German society, where they will be having their ‘season opener’. Having three albums  Prayer Expose,Grace moments and the latest Goodness, they promised nothing less than a better understanding of the inspirational music and the language behind it.

Many thanks to everyone who gets time to inbox us their Testimonies, Let me get this opportunity to answer this question about the song Mututu. I never sufferes nose bleeding(mututu) as a child, neither did any of my blood brothers and sisters but its just a song tht came while I was bathing in a cold shower in june last year and was developed inside me for a long time untill it became a complete song. Its surprising how many say they bn healed eversince they listened to e song. Surely this humbles me and continue to send your testimonies of what God is doing through the album Goodness!!

ON STAGE we "Share our similarities, celebrate our differences" as CHALE and NAM. Two artists who compliment each other!!
9 April 2016 get ready to discover more about these TWO ARTISTS!!
Tickets are available 0772 521 968/ 0772 923 932 admin@chalenam.co.zw

One of the best choices I ever made was to ask you Out. When you said yes, I really ddnt have the full picture of what God had laid before me. There is nothing tht pleases a man like going home to a welcoming wife and just a cool, calm and collected being you are Nam.I hva made u cry, made u smile aswell over the year but you brot me Peace and stability.Yes you are celebrating your birthday today but I think am the one celebrating more coz I was just give You. Happy birthday Namluv, Nam Nam,Namchalie,Namhoney, Lipysquiz!! Charles Chipanga loves you

Because God loved us, we are able to love back.

1st Corinthians 13 from verse 

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
⁸ Love never fails.

The month of LOVE!!

When i read this i had to share....
 By Uhuru Kenyatta
I was jogging this morning and I noticed a person about 1/2 a kilometre ahead. I could tell he was running a little slower than me and I thought, good, I shall try to catch him. I had about a kilometre before Ineeded to turn off. So I started running faster and faster. Every block, I was gaining on him just a little bit. After just a few minutes I was only about 100 metres behind him, so I really picked up the pace and pushed myself. You would have thought I was running in the last leg of an Olympic competition. I was determined to catch him. Finally, I did it! I caught and passed him. On the inside I felt so good. "I beat him" Of course, he didn't even know we were racing. After I passed him, I realised I had been so focused on competing against him that I had missed my turn. I had gone nearly six blocks past my turn and I had to turn and go back. Isn't that what happens in life when we focus on competing with co-workers, neighbours, friends, family, trying to outdo them or trying to prove that we are more successful or more important? We spend our time and energy running after them and we miss out on our own paths to our God given destinies. The problem with unhealthy competition is that its a never ending cycle. There will always be somebody ahead of you, someone with a better job, nicer car, more money in the bank, more education, a prettier wife, a more handsome husband, better behaved children, etc. But realize that "You can be the best that you can be, you are not competing with no one." Some people are insecure because they pay too much attention to what others are , where others are going, wearing and driving. Take what God has given you, the height, weight and personality. Dress well and wear it proudly, you'll be blessed by it. Stay focused and live a healthy life. There is no competition in Destiny. Run your own race and wish others well!!