Category: Music
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Charamba Preaches to Zimdancehall Artists
Charles and Olivia Charamba Zimdancehall has upstaged other genres to become the household phenomenon of the moment. While traditional genres are struggling for survival, dancehall is flinging its mojo into previously closed spaces. Ghetto chanters are staking their claim to the showbiz presidium, and the nation is reverberating along. It is the reinvention of culture…
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Leonard Zhakata’s Gospel Somersault
Leonard Zhakata (Photo Credit: The Herald) Zora maestro Leonard Zhakata’s latest offering indicates a transition from liberation theology to prosperity gospel. Zora maestro Leonard Zhakata’s latest offering indicates a transition from liberation theology to prosperity gospel. A closer listen to two of Zhakata’s most popular tracks Mugove and Dhonza Makomborero point to this theological somersault.…
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Celebrating Zim’s Women Musicians
Women Musicians Book: Women Musicians in Zimbabwe Author: Joyce Jenje Makwenda Publisher: Joyce Jenje Makwenda (2013) Music, that moody food for those who trade in love as Shakespeare says, is cultural staple fare in Zimbabwe. From the inception of township music in the 1930s to the present, the industry has not short supplied aesthetes who…
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Care Package for Brian Sibalo’s Fans
A care package is in the line for the late Brian Sibalo’s fans with the emergence of his versatile brother Daniel Sibalo who is currently working on his third album in South Africa. The younger Sibalo storms into the arena at a time the industry is still to recover from the void left by…
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Manyeruke Ropes in Sipho Makabane
The grand patriarch of local gospel music, Machanic Manyeruke, has enlisted the services of South African psalmist Sipho Makabane for his new album, Kubva Muhuruva, which is slated for release on September 24. The Big Fish, as Sipho Makabane is fondly known by his regional hordes of fans, fell for Baba Manyeruke’s bait and will…
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