Grace Chinga, Rest In Peace, Malawi will never forget you

Mar 17, 2016 Entertainment 34
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Grace Chinga

…Chinga to be buried on Saturday at HHI Cemetery

Just two days ago I wrote an article expressing my excitement that Grace Chinga, Malawi’s Queen of Gospel music, will be coming back with new songs after a six year break. I was not the only one celebrating the announcement she made on her Facebook post. A lot of people were looking forward to the double album release, as she announced. Although she had been away for six years, I said that she never lost her presence on the scene. She was as popular as she has always been, and it was because of her previous songs which were in a class of their own.

Grace Chinga
Chinga to be buried on Saturday

And then, came March 16, 2016, as time was coming close to midnight, Social Media was awash with posts that the gospel queen is no more. At first it was hard for me to believe because Social Media has ‘killed’ living people before. But in a matter of minutes, the news about the death kept on coming and I had to be man enough and accept that it is true.

What more can I say? I am as shocked as anyone. This was not what we expected when we woke up last morning. Yes, we live with the knowledge that this world is full of evil, and that anything bad can happen. But Grace’s death was never one of the evils we thought was about to happen.

For now, the shock is too much. My hands are literally shaking. But I have pushed myself to write, to heal myself from the pain I am going through. Grace, as everyone is saying, May Your Soul Rest in Eternal Peace. We loved you as a person and as an artist. You had a wonderful life story. Your music moved all of us and we loved you being part of the gospel industry in Malawi. Personally, I would like to say thank you for your 2010 album, ‘Udzayimba Nyimbo’, a conceptual and a moving album, full of hope. It raised you from the lowest point of your life to the summit you were till your death. Just as it did with you, it also acts as a beacon of hope whenever I am down. Dying at a young age of thirty seven is even more heart breaking for us, and more, when we think of your beauty and talent.

You will remain a legend!

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34 Comments

  2. Mom may ur soul rest in intenal peace u r gone bt u r still preaching 2 the world through the special gift of songs u have left it wth us mom R I P

  3. She was an inspiration to the young genarationin in Africa specifically zambia. rest in peace Grace.

  5. am fling sorry for some one ho did this but god is still speaking to day we meet again grace RIP for ever

  7. oooooo am shocked to loose essential artist like Grace anyway kwatsala tchire moto umapita komweko nothing I can say mzimu wamamlemu Grace muunse mumtendere ameen

  9. I will neva forget you Grace for your songs were enriched with spiritual wisdom. May you sleep in eternal spirit of the Lord CHRIST

  15. hard shocking to hear & believe…” NDAPULUMUKA MWACHISOMO” thats the song u left behind in my living soul ….MMU IMU tili limodzi koma kuthupiku talekana …u were so touching when u start singing …still can’t believe ur gone ..KAPUMULENI MUM …MYSRIP

  16. Sleep well Grace i will miss u untill we meet again;(;(;(

  18. Akalandileni malipiro. Ntchito mwagwira

  21. The only words she has left us with are R.I.P. Indeed we will always remember CHINGA through God’s messages she was sharing us. Let God be the father and follow her 2 etenal life.

  24. Grace rest in peace. I will live to like your songs. Muzaiymba nyimbo. It was a song some of us will never forget as the vibes keep on playing in our njales remembering what God has done to our lives after passing through thick and thin in our lives and reach where we are today

  25. Grace rest in peace. I will live to like your songs. Muzaiymba nyimbo. It was a song some of us will never forget as the vibes keep on playing in our njales remembering what God has done to our lives after passing through thick and thin in our lives and reach where we are today

  26. May her soul rest in peace. May the Lord comfort the deceased family and be with them.

  27. I can say Rest in peace our musian Grace chinga. Koma umboni muli nawo mmene ziko mwalisiyila.malawi ali pamoto mwina mulungu angotitumizila mtumiki wina basi

  30. Bye bye Grace Chinga! ! u have gone but you be remembered forever and always! R I P !!!

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