By JOWIT SALUSEKI –

GOSPEL artiste Manase Kaluba formely called MKV has released a 10-track album entitled A Testimony under his Sunnet Studios.
Listening to his latest project, one might not believe that the melodies were perfected by a man whose career stem in the secular world.
The singer who first emerged on the music scene in 1999 with the Chalila hit single and his 2003 debut album Chalalinso is now a born again Christian.
Manase tells DStv Entertainment that the album which has songs such as Triple Favour featuring Magg 44, Nimatamanda featuring Penjani, Ephraim and Racheal, was released on the market about four months ago.
“I gave my life to Christ three years ago and that’s the reason why I wasn’t releasing anything”, says Manase.
On his life testimony, he says, he had briefly ‘died’ and went to a place where he met an angel who kept asking him what he will do differently if he was given another chance to come back to earth.
“It was on a Tuesday, I had supper with my family … In the night, I had died and went to the other side where there was an angel who kept coming in different shapes. Whilst I was dead the angel came back to ask me: what will you do differently if you were to go back to earth?”, narrated Manase.
He said the angel gave him a garment and sandals and when he woke up he asked his wife to call their two daughters and they started praying.
“Funny enough in the afternoon of that day I went back drinking, because I thought it was just a mere dream. But on one Sunday as I was driving near Manda hill traffic lights, suddenly I failed to breath properly and became unconscious, lack enough a friend of mine drove the car for me to my mother’s place in Olympia, Lusaka,” explained Manase.
He said pastors Clarance and Evans from Love and Mercy Ministries started praying for him for more than three hours and casted out demons until he gained consciousness.
After being prayed for by the pastors, his family suggested to take him to Lusaka’s Fair View hospital where he was on and off oxygen for three days.
“When I was discharged and went back home, I started thinking about my life and that’s how I decided to give my life to God at Love and Mercy Church. I Changed my phone number that had MKV and went to various radio stations informing them that they should stop playing my old music because I had banned it since I was now a changed person”, says Manase.
The singer says he does not regret that he was once MKV and used to make a lot of money as a secular artiste. Because he does not want to associate himself with his old past, he has banned all his music he offloaded under MKV.
“I have transformed my music from entertaining people to worshipping and exalting the name of God through gospel music and I only record gospel music at my studio,” he says.
Born on May 24, 1980, Manase who is married to Alexis Wanga with three children started his music career in 1999.
As a secular artiste, he was acclaimed with songs such as Musizani, Amai Junior and Kumushi.
He attended Olympia primary and Arrakan High schools in Lusaka.
His latest gospel project is being sold at Radio Christian Voice, Super Shine investments and Sunnet studios in Lusaka’s Olympia residential area.