Alfred Yabe

Based in Lusaka, Zambia, Alfred Yabe is a former member of the Blackfoot Band. In August 2006, he started a music academy known as Ge-Al-Ya in Ndola bent on teaching guitar and organ. Apart from guitar and organ lessons, musicians would also be given lessons on how to record.

In February 2014, he managed to put the band’s ‘Footsteps’ album on Compact Disc (CD) in memory of his fallen colleagues and rewind back into time. The idea behind the development is meant to give the young people a feel of what music was like back then let alone remembering his brothers. The band was founded in 1973 and was made of Tanzanian born Ottman Bonny Mpondzi on Lead, Alfred “Gear” Yabe (Rhythm), Garry Musopa (Bass) Fortune Makunike on drums and later brothers, Paul and Peter Chilufya.

Produced in 1978 on wax records, the redone album still retains the original rolling drum beats, heavy bass, fine guitars and vocals. The ‘Footsteps’ CD is pegged at K40.00 per CD and plays songs like ‘Pumpa Joe’, ‘Sound in My Sleep’ and ‘Lonely Highway’ among others.