Jackson Kaujeua

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

Jackson Kaujeua (pronounced " chew -ju -wah " ) lived 18 years in political exile and has been used by his musical work for the independence of Namibia and for the equal rights of men. With successes like Winds of Change and! Gnubu! Nubus, Kaujeua gained international attention and was also a major Namibian freedom fighters.

Since mid-2009, it was known that Kaujeua suffered from renal failure and made a dialysis therapy. At the same time he was waiting for a donor organ. He died after a brief period of improvement on May 27, 2010 in a hospital in Windhoek.

Life

Kaujeua grew up in the small village südnamibischen! Huns at Keetmanshoop on. On the north around the country mission school Otjimbingwe Kaujeua discovered his passion for gospel music such as Mahalia Jackson, and thereupon broke training as a pastor from. " In the texts there was talk of human rights. That's what I just made ​​sense: I wanted to make protest music " 1973, Kaujeua studying music in the South African Dorkay Art & Musikkollegg for talented non-whites in Johannesburg Apartheid policy. . Since Kaujeua was anti -apartheid politically active, it was only reported from South Africa, applied for asylum shortly thereafter in neighboring Botswana and finally came in mid- 20 -year-old over the network SWAPO to Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Here Kaujeua able to pursue his musical interests and was soon as the lead singer of British group Black Diamond, his first album: One Namibia, One Nation out. Numerous musical success has been international bestsellers; among other things, Winds of Change, leaning against a famous speech by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. 1979 Kaujeua went on for some years as an assistant and primary school teacher in a refugee camp SWAPO to Angola and returned with the independence of Namibia in 1990 returned to his home and gave Gnubu nubus ( Damara: short and round )! Out - one of his still meistgefeiertsten hits.

In 1994 he published his autobiography in Windhoek Tears over the deserts. Jackson Kaujeua is considered the musicians with the most albums released in Namibia and one of the most influential musicians of 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.