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Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter
VICTORIA Falls-based radio presenter, DJ JVAN has released a single, Ixhesha, through which he is encouraging partners to love each other unconditionally and value marriage as opposed to cohabiting.

JVAN (real name Jonathan Sibanda), a producer and voice-over artiste at Breeze FM who presents the Vuka Lathi breakfast show, had taken a nine-year music hiatus and broke it last year when he released a single titled Wadidizela. The track features award-winning rapper Msiz’Kay.

Ixhesha which was released last Thursday, has since then got airplay on a number of national radio stations. It has also been uploaded online as well.

Through the latest single, a fusion of hip-Hop and Afro-Pop, DJ JVAN said his desire is to encourage couples to love and marry each other.

“The song is about a man telling his spouse that it is time to formalise things by getting married. When one listens to the lyrics, they may feel as if there is conflict but that’s just a presentation style I chose. The man is simply telling his partner that they have been together through thick and thin hence the need to take their relationship to the next level,” said DJ JVAN.

He said the song that was produced by Chuchu Manie of Danica Studios in collaboration with 2_Izzy, a hip-hop producer, was inspired by the need to correct the new world order where people are opting to cohabit.

DJ JVAN said he is humbled by the reception that the song is getting.

Before venturing into broadcasting in 2011, JVAN was a musician who had songs, Aphi Amantombazane which he worked on with Keig and Msheznana in 2008 and Tshona Phansi in 2009.

He said the two songs unfortunately did not make the impact he expected.
DJ JVAN then released another single, Yizo Ezabomrepha in 2011 before shifting focus to his broadcasting career. — @ncubeleon