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Mr Allie’s ‘Yes I Believe’ scoops awards

- NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE Correspond­ent

There is a new gospel artist known as Mr Allie in the local music scenes whose music is doing exceptiona­lly well. His real names are Alfred Kavezedi. This artist is a jack of all traits who is a music producer sound engineer, songwriter and music composer, recording artist, writer, motivation­al speaker and MCee born in Mahalapye. His new album titled, “Yes I Believe” consists of 11 tracks and it was released in October 2020.

“It is a gospel album aiming to bring revival, healing, joy and hope to the masses. Songs include track seven called ‘Morwa Dafita’ of which I was calling on Jesus to assist on issues affecting us on a daily basis. It is a Jazz piece. Track nine, ‘God is so good’ is a happy song just celebratin­g the goodness of the Lord and it was recently nominated the song of the year at the Gospel Music Awards this year. The other song, ‘Yes I Believe’, tells us to believe in God and all becomes well. We are healed by faith and we have victory by it,” he said. The album was recorded at Hall of Fame studio in associatio­n with Sound Hub Records. Mr Allie was its executive producer while Shatiso Aaron was the producer and Emmanuel Shepherd as the assistant producer. Mr Allie also pointed out that the album was nominated the Best Gospel Contempora­ry Album at BOMU in 2021 and scooped six awards in 2022 dubbed; Best Gospel Album of the year with his song

‘Yes I Believe,’ Best Male Gospel Artist, Best Gospel Newcomer, Best Gospel Producer, Best Contempora­ry Gospel Album for ‘Yes I Believe’ and Best Gospel Song of the Year with his song ‘God is so good.’

He emphasised that finances were his greatest challenge as an upcoming artist. He explained that he lacked sponsorshi­ps and appealed to the public, individual­s and companies to assist his music.

However, he said the public received it with open arms even though it had not yet gotten enough airplay due to constraint­s budget on his marketing.

“’Yes I Believe’ will be release on online store on November 25, 2022 (today). We are currently trying to push this project before we can bring other projects,” he ended.*

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