Garth wants to share music performance with Namibia
After the huge success of his children's album Falling in Africa in Canada, the Namibian Garth Prince will soon be back on home turf.This album and accompanying picture book earned him several awards and nominations, including the Canadian Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year in 2022.
The Juno Awards are presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
Garth would like to come and celebrate this milestone in his motherland. "I'm going to bring the Juno trophy along so people can see it and hopefully that young kids can also realize it's possible for them to achieve something like this," he says.
He hopes to share his achievements abroad with those who helped make them possible. "Every time I achieve something here, I feel so separated from the community that inspired this music," he says.
Garth shares that there is another, more educational reason for his visit to Namibia. "The song 'Falling in Africa' on the album with the same name is an educational song about a shooting star that falls in Namibia - the Hoba meteorite. I never knew about it until one day I came across an educational children's book and read about it with my daughter here in Canada. I immediately jumped up and wrote the chorus of the song. People always ask if I've seen the meteorite yet and I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't know about it when I lived in Namibia, so I want to go see the meteorite," Garth says.
He will also host official launch events for Falling in Africa in Windhoek and Swakopmund and says he hopes to also get involved with local schools to share educational music with them.
Furthermore, Garth hopes that his visit to Namibia will help him get his music on the Namibian radio stations. "We didn't do any marketing for Falling in Africa in Namibia, as our attention was mainly focused here in Canada."