Tunesday: Alugalug & The Kiffness – Soulful Singing
A sample of some obscure – and maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.
Today’s selection: Kiffness & Alugalug – Soulful Singing 2021
A duet. A strange duet.
The Kiffness, the stage name of David Scott, born 1988, is a South African performer. He began studying medicine but switched to music and philosophy while working as a DJ. He had been a touring artist but when COVID halted live performances, he started recording some parodies about how the South African government was handling the pandemic.
He mostly writes political satirical songs aimed at South Africa issues, but he parodied Trump’s claim of Haitians eating people’s pets in 2024 (which I happen to believe was true but maybe not as widespread as media let on).
The Kiffness plays the instruments and backup vocals on this selection.
Alugalug is the lead singer on this cut, singing in her native language …
There is an album available called “Cat Jams”. It’s actually not bad …
I first encountered this dood maybe 4-5 years ago and posted a link to one of his vids on Gerard’s site. He’s very good at what he does. Playing all the instruments, singing the layers, adding the video. The whole package. Funny, the only one I can recall at the moment is the one about the Husky dogs. Worth taking a look at.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheKiffness
I love The Kiffness. A very talented young man as Ghost said. Ambivalent about this song but there were two I loved – the first I ever heard, the cat was crying think of me or remember me or something and the 2nd he dedicated to a boy of about 12 named Rylie who was very seriously harmed by the jab. Tried to find both
on the site but couldn’t.
The cat one was brilliant and the beautiful day song with the little boy was charming. Kiffness is A OK!