Edgar ndi Davis are undeniably celebrated acoustic musicians in the country. Doubts were there when they first appeared on the music scene.

How can lawyers who earn “fat” salaries take music seriously? They are just doing this for a year and they will quit, many music pundits argued.

But, 10 years on, the two lawyers, Edgar Kachere and Davis Njobvu have three albums to their name and are on top. What’s their story?

It dates back to the early 90s when the two were at the prestigious Kamuzu Academy in Kasungu.
“We were in a band called Bad Combinations. Edgar was playing keyboards, the late William Chindenga was on drums, Denis Njinkho on bass and I was on vocals. That is how it all started,” recalls Njobvu.

He says they were playing during talent shows at the school but the real stuff was when the two met again at the Chancellor College (Chanco) in Zomba when both were studying law.

They were invited to play at Christmas Carols at Chanco in 1999 and from then on, the journey to stardom began.

“We played ‘Njinga ya hamba’ and people fell in love with it and this encouraged us a lot. We played it four times,” says Njobvu.

Then came the year 2000, the duo were invited to play at the Miss Malawi contest and the song ‘Wazelezeka’ became an instant hit after the show.

“We then recorded our songs at MBC studios and by the end of that year, 'Wazelezeka' was voted the number three song on the year in the Entertainers of the year programme. This is what encouraged us to go on. Many thought we were not going to continue with our music because of pressure of work. But from the Wazelezeka became a hit, it was a roller coaster,” adds Davis.

Then an album Wazelezeka was recorded and this was followed by Musamabwere kumudzi in
 2005.

The late theatre queen Getrude Kamkwatira asked the duo to compose some songs that were going to go along with her play.

“I composed ‘Aiguputo’ and ‘Mwana akamela mano’ and this album was also a success. People fell in love with the song ‘Kalekale’. The public owned this song and embraced it,” Davis said.

However, their music started to take a new dimension in 2006 where they started performing with a live band and some of the acoustic songs from their earlier albums were redone.

In 2007 they were invited to play at the Lake of Stars music festival in Chintheche, Nkhata Bay where their performance was impressive.

Davis added that it was an honoured when they played with Masauko Chipembere and his Black Sunshine Band at Chancellor College in Zomba a few years ago.
He said they have been championing the recognition of acoustic musicians in the country and that is why they decided to record an album ‘Wele wele’ with Giddes Chalamanda, an acoustic legend.

With the recording of their third album Dzubwera mochedwa in 2008, the duo is under pressure to supply their music.

“Our music is not available anywhere. People are scrambling for our CDs and we are failing to meet the demand,” he said.

The duo has resorted to  shooting videos of some of their popular songs and the DVD is expected to be released at the height of their 10 year celebrations later in the year.

Edgar on the other hand said their fans should expect good shows.

“We will be holding celebration shows in Blantyre, Zomba, Lilongwe and Mzuzu. But if there are other places where they want us they can get in touch with us so that we arrange shows in those areas too,” he said.

Davis said they will be releasing their fourth album by the end of this year which will summarise the 10 years the two have been doing music.

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