Robert Fumulani was an award-winning popular musician, nightclub owner, and businessman in Malawi

Malawi

The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

. He fronted the Likhubula River Dance Band, known for its Afroma ("Afro-Malawi") funk rock

Funk rock

Funk rock is a music genre that fuses funk and rock elements. Its earliest incarnation was heard in the late 1960s through the mid-1970s by acts such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience , Eric Burdon and War, Trapeze, Parliament-Funkadelic, Betty Davis and Mother's Finest. The 1990s were known for acts...

 reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 fusion.

Fumulani has been described as "one of Malawi's most popular bandleaders of the late 1980s and 1990s", and as "the blessed father of our national music". In the 1980s he was a three-time winner of Malawi's "Entertainer of the Year" award.

His earnings from music went towards a number of business enterprises, including the Chileka nightclub, Likhubula Entertainment Centre.

External links

• Matthew LaVoie, "Musical Sunshine from Malawi", VOA News
  Voice of America
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  , February 26, 2008. With links to sound files of three songs performed by Robert Fumulani and the Likhubula River Dance Band.