By His wounds we are healed, by His stripes we are made whole. Jesus the son of God came and died for our sins. Have you any idea what that means?? God sent his ONLY son to die so that you and I could have peace, through Him we are redeemed. Grace is the word. Unmerited favor, things you don't deserve, nothing short of amazing.
StrypZ of Salvation
is our band name:
The Three stripes stand for and symbolize the Holy Trinity. The Stripes also represent the defeat of Death by our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, who after 3 days rose from the Grave. Scripture on which most of our music stands, Isaiah 53 where Jesus Death and triumph over death was prophesied. Jesus was badly battered but never said a single word... not one. Not a single word.
WHO ARE WE
We are a band of one. The member of this band goes by a stage name, Diamond Dice with real names being Bwalya Mulumba.
He is the producer, writer and composer of this band's music. He is also a photographer and a Graphics designer. All the Band's artwork is done by him.
Born on 17th October 1993, Diamond Dice (born Bwalya Mulumba) came to life at Thompson Hospital, Luanshya Zambia into a family of seven. He went to school at Kalulushi Trust School. His father, John Chanda Mulumba taught and still teaches Music there. At an early age, Diamond Dice learnt to play the recorder, a woodwind instrument similar to a flute. He played at four Music festivals organized by the Trust School Association. Completing his primary education, Diamond Dice went to Mpelembe secondary school after winning a 100% scholarship from the BEIT (British Education International Trust) fund. In 2007 he started learning to play the piano by watching the senior students and they played in the main school hall. With a computer at home when he came from school during the holidays, Diamond Dice came across Fruityloops (now called FL Studio) Version 3, a digital music production software. This was where everything started. After showing interest in learning, His father taught him how to make music using FL Studio.
Back in school, under heavy influence from friend, Diamond Dice started listening to Rock music. This quickly became his favorite genre because of his ability to translate the guitar chords onto the piano. This shifted him from Hip-hop (leaving only a few artists on his playlist. Eminem remained the only rapper on the Hip-hop playlist for Diamond). This also moved him from listening to a lot of local artists as they spread the same message that hip hop was spreading at the time. It was all about relationships between boys and girls, love stories, money, cars, girls, violence. Rock music became the only thing he could listen to. It was easy for him to relate to the music because of his ability to play the instruments. Also, the artists spoke about real life issues which affect the majority of people in the world today. Oppression, sickness, disease, racism are just a few.in grade eleven, Diamond Dice learnt to play the guitar. After completing secondary school. Diamond Dice focused on Music, working on 3 specific Genres; Alternative Rock, Grunge and Metal.
The band name first started out as Ice 'N' Rocks taken from his names: Ice- (the slang term for Jewelry referring to Dice) and Rocks (the literal collective things of a Diamond's Nature rocks/stones). The Rocks also came in as the governing body for the genres he was undertaking, Rock music. The band brought to life songs like Industrio and its remix, Land of Rock and many others which you can listen to on soundcloud.com https://soundcloud.com/sosalvation/tracks
2012 saw the band name Change to Angeles Muertos, depicting the Band's focus on metal and Grunge, music from Alternative music. (It means Dead angels in Spanish.) The year brought about songs like Reverb, The Kick, and Beast Mode off their debut EP, which was called The Hype [Overdose]. The EP, an underground project had a mixture of Grunge with modernized Hip Hop under the influence of Metal... The aspect of Hip Hop was brought around to captivate the minds of the Hip Hop listeners while maintaining the music's origins. That very year, the Band's Sound cloud profile was opened allowing songs from the previous years to also be aired and listened to. A Facebook page was also opened for the Band https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stipes-of-Salvation/452226758133921
In 2013, Still Promoting the Hype, a Reverb nation page was created. In this year, music was slowed down to a near standstill as the artist focused in into Graphics design and Photography. You can take a look at his work here https://www.facebook.com/ddice3/media_set?set=a.803606636326244.1073741833.100000307450191&type=3
2014… THE YEAR OF TRANSFORMATION
Our Music has primarily been instrumental music. But this year has been a year of realization for us.
You see, our music has been for entertainment and everyday life topic. This year however, we asked ourselves, whose flag we would be running under. We are Christians, and we want our music to reflect that. Our music is now Christian music, this to us means that regardless of what topic we tackle, however our music is heard, it will point out that without God, without Christ, life is a losing battle. It will now have lyrical content as well because now it's not just music, it is my way of preaching.
ARTWORK
Our artwork has two main features. A Hardcore Grunge background that symbolizes our sins in the eyes of God and Three RED Stripes. These are always solid above the background as they show that Christ's blood and the Trinity triumph over all sins. That by these-His- Stripes, We are healed.
We have maintained genres. We are a Christian Rock band under the Flag of the Grace. And Salvation is coming.
We are currently working on a project called,
Singles, Cover and… it's just the Beginning.
We have a single out right now… listen to it here https://soundcloud.com/sosalvation/fathers-day
