Vocal Motion Six (Vm6) is a 5-person male Inspirational Acappella and Classical group taking the world by storm with their exceptional harmonies. The members, Vasco, Thomas, Jones, Mark and Peter, represent the Mario and the Chizyuka families and began singing together in February 1999.

The group originated in Rundu the northeastern part of Namibia, as a composition of six vocalists but become five in 2005 when one of the members left the group. VM6 was originally known as Breath of Truth. The group changed its name in the year 2000. After only 10 months together in 1999, the group won the prestigious Namibia Broadcasting Corporation Music Makers awards for best vocal group in the vocal category and also won as the overall winners of the competition. This was a live broadcast both on TV and radio. As the group evolved to explore new musical expressions, they built a diverse repertoire that includes: Acappella, gospel, inspirational, jazz, ballads, classic and R&B. They sing in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Afrikaans, and a number of southern African languages. The group has now taken the Namibian corporate market and the general public by storm with their new image and out-of-this world performances! In addition, the young men of VM6 have become role models in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Namibia. The band together with a young HIV+ woman who tells her compelling story perform at schools throughout Namibia and bring HIV/AIDS prevention, anti-stigma, and living positive messages to Namibian youth.

Community Involvement and Projects by VM6:

VM6 embraces the quote by Albert Pike “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us, what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal” Thus, VM6 is also involved in community activities in Namibia. Since 2007, the group has conducted tours funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief – PEPFAR - called the living positive Tours. This is a collective initiative of the Public Affairs Office of the US Embassy in Namibia, VM6, and Herlyn U’iras, a courageous young Namibian woman living with the HIV virus. VM6 and Herlyn perform at schools throughout Namibia bringing HIV/AIDS prevention, anti-stigma, and living positive messages to the youth. They also performed in mining industry, churches and community halls. Since then, they have reached more than 85,000 mostly youth in their tours.

8 Awards and 1 (One) International Nomination received by VM6 is as follows:

2009 Award winners, Best Performance, Golden Microphone Wika German Windhoek Festival.

2005 award winners, best Vocal group for National Youth Council (NYC), National Youth Enterprise, JCI Namibia and youth Expo.

2005 awarded Gold medal for Overall competition winner and Silver medal for best Vocal group at the Namibian championships for performing arts.

2005 KORA All Africa awards (Nominated)

2002, 2003 Award winners for Best Vocal group “Acappella category” Ae/’games city of Windhoek festival.

1999 Namibia Premier Music Competition (Music Makers Awards) VM6 scoped the top 2 awards (Best Vocal Group & Overall First Price, “artist of the year”)

Some more activity Highlights:

               2009 Bill and Melinda Gates foundation event, Living Proof Project, Impatient and Optimistic, Washington DC                             

               2009 Juilliard School for performing Arts New-York, United States of America 

2009 Music workshop with Helen Sung & Nu-generation from the American Cultural Center program. Public Affairs U.S. Embassy, Windhoek, Namibia.

2008 Performance with American actress, Sheryl Lee Ralph (The Diva Foundation – One-woman show about HIV/AIDS)

2008 Performance with Navy Red Acappella group from the republic of South-Africa.

2008 Classical workshop wit MR Bennie Robinson from SA,

2008, shared a stage with Best of the Best from South-Africa. (NTN)

2007 Performed with Raped in Rain a female American duo based in France.

2007/2008 Vm6 gave a workshop of team Building in Windhoek at Camp Glow to students from the whole country.

2005 Professional performance in the Southern Cape South-Africa,

2000 Acappella music workshop with the acclaimed female Acappella group Black Voices from the UK!  

Our Goal:

Furthermore, our commitment to social change is demonstrated through a mutually embrace goal to produce “Music with a message” with the aim to inspire other Namibian youth and the world at large. Our aim and commitment is to make a difference and bring about positive change in our world beginning with one step at a time.