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Brenda Phiri  Entertainment Reporter
DESPITE having a many commitments as musician, mother, businesswoman, music student with Music Crossroads Academy as well as running a recording studio Tryphine Tigere-Foya has defied her multiple roles to come up with a polished album. The diva’s latest album titled “Ndinotenda” is testimony to how female gospel musicians in the country have the potential to make a serious impact.

Mai Foya as she is fondly called in music circles is gradually emerging as one of the country’s leading gospel musicians because of her consistence, focus, vision as well as a unique voice which she skilfully blends with uplifting and spiritually-laden lyrics.

“It is a celebratory album, because as Christians it is high time that we should learn to shift away from the tendency of always complaining about our problems as if we are perennial sufferers,” she said.

“Yes, we might face some challenges in life, but let us pause for a moment and thank God for the good things which he has given in our lives,” Mai Foya said.

This is the message on the title track, “Ndotenda” in which she extols God for the blessing of life.

The songs are craftily arranged and titled in a way that sort of tells a story chronologically.

“Vondisimudzira” talks about how God raises people, and for that alone one needs to take time to celebrate, which she indicates in the next song “Kupembera”.

“Ikoko”, “Kusangana Nemi”, “Kumatenga”, “Huya Mweya” and “Panyika” are part of the playlist.

The album was engineered by Oscar Chamba and Blek at Sepp Records.

This is her fifth album after “Ngavanamatwe (2006), “Tiwanirei Nyasha” (2010), “Ndichauyako” (2012) and “Topira Zvose” (2013).