The artist known as Elaka is a Zambian born singer, songwriter, actress, model, designer, and entrepreneur . This young pioneer leaves no stone unturned when it comes to the endless talent she possesses. Amongst her many talents her main love is music, it has always been Elaka’s dream to be able to write and perform her music. She says: “I feel like I come alive when I am either in the studio or holding that mic in front of an audience, it’s an exhilarating experience” With the fortunate heritage of being Zambian and the privilege of living in the UK, she gets the opportunity to experiment with her identity as a Zambian mixed with an English culture through her music.
Elaka does not like to be compared to other artists as she feels that each artist is unique in their creativity she says: “that’s what helps us maintain our individuality, I have a different vocal style, my range is vast it bridges 4 octaves but in most cases I like to keep it simple but interesting, I try not to limit myself or get pigeon holed, that just wouldn’t be me”.
Her voice allows her the ability to experiment with various genres of music, and like her voice her sound is not genre specific either. She writes songs about her emotions and her life’s journey, observations from others and her own personal experiences, and lets the sound take her wherever that emotion goes.
A lot of people are probably wondering who Elaka is, and where she came from. She has actually been around for a while, and has kept it reasonably low key in regards to her music. She used this time to nurture her talent and to learn more about the industry. This time also allowed her the opportunity to build up on her talents mentioned above. She is now a proud owner of a 2010 BEFFTA award winning branding and marketing company Effycom Productions , a 2010 two time BEFFTA nominated Beauty Pageant Queen Of Zambia UK which aids in promoting Zambians around the world and also help various charities in particular the ones in Zambia, a clothing line Elrhy Clothing and in 2009 was a cast member of the UK independent movie Find Her Keep Her.
Before 2011 Elaka had the privilege of performing on the same stage as some of UK and Zambia’s top artists such as Sway, Devlin, Fumin, Chipmunk, Bashy, Omar, Shola Ama, Ghetts, Tinchy Stryder just to name a few; and from Zambia Mozegeta, K’Million, Petersen, Danny, Angela Nyirenda, MC Wabwino, the Late Lilly T and many more.
Having been hard at work with redefined fresh material for 2011/12, the release of her promo single I Can’t Let You Go, which is available for digital download, with a follow up to release her debut single titled ‘My Africa‘ which is now available for digital download. With a number of collaborations already in the pipeline with African and UK artists, it seems Elaka is the hot Afro/Euro artist to look out for .
THE MUSIC
“I cant let you go”
Elaka released a video for her song “My Africa” that features Ghanian artist Samson Marley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Picd1fqSPY0
Directed By Nord Graham Car, Aliajay Entertainment/ Starmovies Productions “Elaka’s My Africa FT Samson Marley. “Screen Play” by Nord Graham Car.
By Kapa187
poor video production, in short u got no talent at all
Nice one
How many zambians do we hv in uk are thy all singers , anyway good video enjoyed
Great songs ,keep it up
poor video QUALITY, in short u got no talent at all
[-( to you IT-Specialist, poor video quality? hahahaha olo nikufuna kukambako chintu, if you have nothing to say just be quiet, and then you say “in short u got no talent at all” well she is doing something with her life something that seems cant be said about you. Ma Zambians just wanting to put everything and anything down…. You keep representing us Elaka we need more people like you, plus what you are doing for ama artists too big up we are proud of you.
Eh eh, you took the time to read about her and even leave a comment, that’s kudos to her for the added exposure and time spent on her.
“My Africa” yeve nizi but for the other one “i cant let you go” Kwati wabwelelepofye chikashana.All the best
I think if you look closely pali the second one, its behind the scenes, not actual music video. Ukuconcluda our people when will we ever learn? Love Elaka, watched you at Ann Kansiime in Manchester, you stole the show my dear, even Ann couldn’t stop talking about you. Keep it up, we shall keep buying your music. We love what you are doing for Zambian artists
you are doing us proud looking forward to more of your music, Zambia we are the best \:d/
I love the Africa song & the Video! Great work!! Nomba awe mukashana ifi fyena ifyakwimba fyakupatisha mwandi.. Try strip shows mwandi.
KEEP IT UP ELAKA, YOU ARE ONE IN A MILLION, YOU GOT TALENT GAL.