Malawi: Keturah Brings Malawi Roots to the World Stage

[Afropop] Keturah is a young singer from Malawi with a cherry-sweet voice and an easy gift for songwriting. Her journey from a small village to a Los Angeles recording studio, where she created her self-titled debut album in the company of the Playing for Change musical family, is the stuff of story books, as she explains in this interview. The resulting album is a lilting, mostly acoustic set of 10 songs that channel the bubbly, guitar-driven vibe of rural African pop styles like Zimbabwean sungura and Kenyan benga