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| Born | 18 September 1953 Blantyre, Malawi |
| Died | 12 February 2001 (aged 47) |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, bandleader |
Donald Kachamba (18 September 1953 – 12 February 2001) was a Chewa guitarist, composer and bandleader from Malawi.
Donald Kachamba | |
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| Born | 18 September 1953 Blantyre, Malawi |
| Died | 12 February 2001 (aged 47) |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, bandleader |
Donald Kachamba (18 September 1953 – 12 February 2001) was a Chewa guitarist, composer and bandleader from Malawi.
Kachamba was born on 18 October 1953 in Blantyre, and died 12 January 2001, in Chileka.
Together with his older brother Daniel (1947–1987), he recorded an album in 1972 under the name The Kachamba Brothers Band. Beginning that year, Kachamba toured 33 countries in Africa, Europe and the Americas. In May 1988, he toured Finland on the invitation of the Institute for Workers Music, Helsinki. In May 1989, he performed at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zürich. In 1991, his band toured Belgium and Germany. In September 1994, Donald Kachamba was invited to the colloquium "Music and Anthropology" in Lisbon to present one of his films. Thereafter he gave lecture performances in Berlin, Frankfurt and Salzburg. The most recent European tour was in January 1995 to the Netherlands, Belgium and France (on the invitation by Radio France).
Kachamba was artist-in-residence at UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology from 1999 until July 2000.
Donald Kachamba died on Friday, 12 January 2001.
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