Artist Profile: Ballad Zulu
In the industry of music, there are those who do it for a living, the one hit wonders who appear on the scene but fail to keep up, and then there are those who do it simply because they are massively talented and its hard for them to stay away. Ballad Zulu is in the mould of the talented who do music for fun, for him its a hobby. By profession, he's an Economist. When you look through YouTube you won't find much in terms of interviews, but what you'll find is a bit of music videos that are testament of this mans talent. Quite poetic how his parents named him "Ballad". His 1990 single , Cook On (Woman of Truth) is an industry classic. How the hell didn't he win a Grammy? one wonders. Otherwise the lack of proper documentation of Zambian music makes this a hard article to write, the source material is inadequate. But this legend deserves to be appreciated. His sound was international quality, only God knows what could've been if music was his primary career...