Jackson Kaujeua

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Jackson Kaujeua (* 3. July 1953 in !Huns at Keetmanshoop , † 27. May 2010 in Windhoek ) was a Namibian musician , composer and gospel - singer .

Jackson Kaujeua (pronounced "kau-ju-wah") lived in political exile for 18 years and campaigned for Namibia's independence and equality through his musical work. Through successes like Winds of Change and ǃGnubu ǃNubus , Kaujeua gained international attention and was also considered an important Namibian freedom fighter .

It had been known since mid-2009 that Kaujeua suffered from kidney failure and needed dialysis therapy, which in Namibia is only available to private patients. Kaujeua was destitute. A call for donations was unsuccessful, a donor organ was not found. He died after a brief period of recovery on May 27, 2010 in a hospital in Windhoek .

Life

Kaujeua grew up in the small South Namibian village of ǃHuns near Keetmanshoop. At the Otjimbingwe Mission School in the north of the country, Kaujeua discovered his passion for gospel music, such as that of Mahalia Jackson , and then broke off training as a pastor. “In the texts there was talk of human rights. That just made sense to me: I wanted to make protest music. ”In 1973, Kaujeua began studying music at the South African Dorkay Art & Music College for talented non-whites in the Johannesburg of apartheid politics. As Kaujeua was active in anti-apartheid politics, he was first expelled from South Africa, shortly afterwards applied for asylum in neighboring Botswana and finally came to Oxford in the United Kingdom via the SWAPO network when he was in his mid-twenties .

Here Kaujeua was able to pursue his musical interests and soon released his first album as the lead singer of the British group Black Diamond : One Namibia, One Nation . Numerous musical successes became international hits; including Winds of Change , based on a famous speech by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . In 1979 Kaujeua went to a SWAPO refugee camp in Angola as a helper and elementary school teacher for a few years and returned to his homeland with Namibia's independence in 1990 and published ǃGnubu ǃNubus ( Damara : short and round ) - one of his most celebrated hits today.

In 1994 he published his autobiography Tears over the Deserts in Windhoek . Jackson Kaujeua is considered to be the musician with the most published albums in Namibia and one of the most influential musicians in his country, with a strong influence on the popular Namibian music scene.

In June 2011, Kaujeua posthumously received the Namibian Annual Music Award for Lifetime Achievement .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Ekongo: Hamba kahle, Jackson Kaujeua . In: New Era , May 31, 2010. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013. 
  2. ↑ Heaven can wait, Allgemeine Zeitung, March 4, 2010 ( Memento of January 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Jackson Kaujeua sterf, Die Republikein, May 27, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Kaujeua, Jackson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian musician, composer and gospel singer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH ǃHuns near Keetmanshoop , South West Africa
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2010
Place of death Windhoek , Namibia