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By Rukudzo Onai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jah Prayzah has been called a spirit medium for his culturally immersive performances. But the cards from which he read Zimbabwe\u2019s political fortunes were blank. \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d and \u201cMudhara Achauya,\u201d the now controversial songs he wrote as army ambassador, possessed Zimbabweans all the way into a long dry season. Seers and meddlers, no wiser themselves when the generals made history in November 2017, put all the sins of our youth on the singer. However, narrowing down Jah Prayzah\u2019s legacy to politics doesn\u2019t begin to do justice to his range and achievement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A roaring and smoking mbira song, one for the party animals, a Nollywood pity party to confuse the crush outside your league, and a two-season coup soundtrack \u2013 Jah Prayzah created the future by commanding the past, and delivered concepts we had no way of asking for.  Last week, the gangly griot from Uzumba interpreted Tairos Tendaupenyu\u2019s classic love song, \u201cFuruwa,\u201d for our time. Daring is a future admirer who will interpret Jah Prayzah for his own generation, not just because the Afropop great is not one artist, but also because nostalgia for Jah Prayzah years will be, at the same time, nostalgia for the older eras which today possess him.\"\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furuwa Furuwa is a remix of a love song originally composed by Tairos Tendaupenyu. Photo credit: Jah Prayzah via Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the spirit medium arrived on the Harare scene, not quite 20 then, to kill off everything, he already had the memo. No young artist has been more committed to cultural memory \u2013 the full-moon folk register perfected on \u201cGoto\u201d, the mythic mix of traditional and African church sounds on \u201cBvumbamira\u201d and \u201cMuchinjiko\u201d, and old-time inspiration for odd songs, Steve Makoni on \u201cKunobuda Nezuva\u201d or  Ngwaru Mapundu on \u201cEmerina\u201d \u2013 since then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No young Zimbabwean artist has been more committed to cultural memory than Jah Prayzah\u2014 always in peerless form as a cultural revivalist<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After setting the stage with Rudo Runyararo<\/em> (2007) and dancehall-dabbling singles from those underground years, Jah Prayzah debuted proper with Sungano yeRudo<\/em> (2010). He took over the conversation with Ngwarira Kuparara<\/em> (2011)which spawned the Radio Zimbabwe<\/em> song of 2012 and charted several songs. Tsviriyo<\/em> (2013) consolidated the Jah Prayzah years, followed by Kumbumura Mhute<\/em> (2014), Jerusarema<\/em> (2015), Mudhara Achauya<\/em> (2016), Kutonga Kwaro<\/em> (2017), Chitubu<\/em> (2018), Hokoyo<\/em> (2020) and Gwara<\/em> (2021). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this countdown, we look back to the career-defining moments of a Zimbabwean hegemon who owned our 2010s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Sungano Yerudo (2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSungano\u201d was Jah Prayzah\u2019s CV song. As a singer, he could make a hit; as a songwriter, he was a poet; as a rookie, he had the ambition. He had spent his schooldays reading, in his own words, \u201cevery Shona novel written before 2000,\u201d and somewhat found his way around the language. He also played mbira, hands-on with his sound between two generations of handed-down beats. Instant nostalgia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Narrowing down Jah Prayzah\u2019s legacy to politics doesn\u2019t begin to do justice to his range and achievement<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Coming hard upon urban grooves\u2019 dubious legacy as a genre of love songs, Jah Prayzah could not be faulted for singing the same theme throughout his first album. \u201cRuva reRudo\u201d proceeds on questionable patois and \u201cUri Ngirozi\u201d also finds Jah Prayzah singjaying, something of his early dancehall experiments in Budiriro and Chitungwiza. Things switch up on the sonic level:\u201cLisa\u201d sweats the young love theme but this time it\u2019s three Jah Prayzahs singing from different sheets at the same time. Much too mellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Mudhara Achauya (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A synthetic opening with touches of brass. The Oskidy beat feeds into the title video\u2019s military storyline. No one knew that this lightweight love song, punctuated with customary braggadocio, had a secret political life to it. Until it was too late for Cde Mugabe and his hangers-on. \u201cMudhara Achauya\u201d could even have been a mere love song but when fugitive vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa saw his old master off to the sound of \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d in November 2017, Zimbabweans suddenly sniffed conspiracy out of old Jah Prayzah songs. Even \u201cEmma\u201d, his collabo with frenemy Andy Muridzo, had to have meant Emmerson!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cGoto\u201d finds Jah Prayzah possessed by his ancestors, just showing off why he is untouchable in his time<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Away from the bloody waters, the collaboration with Tanzania\u2019s Diamond Platinumz was Jah Prayzah\u2019s strongest regional statement yet. \u201cWatora Mari\u201d also changed the business approach from sponsored DVD albums to ambitious YouTube<\/em> singles that ran into million views. \u201cGoto\u201d finds Jah Prayzah possessed by his ancestors, just showing off why he is untouchable in his time. \u201cHossana\u201d and \u201cTsotsi\u201d are relatable, by now conceptually familiar, songs about a persecuted protagonist. Jah Prayzah still wants to remind us that he is self-made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oliver Mtukudzi and Winky D perform a duet at Hifa in the Harare Gardens. Photo: Shorai Murwira\/This Is Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also lazy songs here. It\u2019s not clear whether Jah Prayzah\u2019s slay queen described as \u201ckachocolate, kayellowbone\u201d is the victim of a botched skin job, or the recipient of half-hearted praise. I hated this album when it came out, but now it seems like it doesn\u2019t matter about the synthetic parts. Aside Gafa Futi,<\/em> Winky D\u2019s monster release later that year, there isn\u2019t a more convincing way to musically reconstruct 2015 Harare and remember permanently unavailable exes. With nostalgia, even bad songs count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Jerusarema (2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t let the Watchtower scenery of the title video fool you. \u201cJerusarema\u201d is not about the New Earth. It is about the old world of mbede, a fertility dance renamed \u201cJerusarema\u201d by the people of Murehwa to distract Rhodesia\u2019s missionary censors. Once again, the album finds Jah Prayzah in peerless form as a cultural revivalist. But this is a pop album. Whereas old mbira masters hardly made the pop conversation, Jah Prayzah was reportedly grossing US$60 thousand per show off this album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The JP album template is defined on Jerusarema<\/em>. Double-time party vibes, \u201cEriza\u201d and \u201cChinamira\u201d, idyllic sounds of the soil, \u201cJerusarema\u201d, and a territory-growing collabo, sung here with Luciano. Love songs and an odd throwback are also customary. A jazzed-up \u201cTaura\u201d remake (whose obscure original I love more for the nostalgia) shoots both birds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Hokoyo (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tenth album, a deliberate statement. The title track\u2019s incantatory hook enchants you from three directions, assisted by hosho and a spare trumpet looking for somewhere to land on the scene of the trance. The verses show that Jah Prayzah\u2019s achievement is not just singing deep Shona that would have seamlessly blended into the fireside and moonshine rituals of a golden past but in adapting it to his present feelings. Along with \u201cKwayedza\u201d, \u201cHokoyo\u201d is the strongest artistic statement on the album. DJ Tamuka\u2019s last album in charge is his best, and Blaqs\u2019 intense videos, rolled out days apart as JP\u2019s lockdown gift, provide the crowning finish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mock-distracted songwriting like, \u201cKundipa museve usina uta\/ ho wandivirimira\/ ha mutema wakaoma\/ ha mutema wakaoma<\/em>,\u201d sounds like an after-flourish while, in fact, deliberately sending the memo. The message here, black-on-black hate, contrasts the black pride message of the earlier lyrics. This is a return to Shona rituals where yodeling, deep into the song, shrouds complaining and critiquing, like what the ancestors called \u201ckutukwa kwamambo\u201d in one use case. \u201cSabhuku usangofundumwara pamuromo, usandiona ndichirara pano<\/em>\u201d towards the yodel-whelmed end of Andy Brown\u2019s \u201cMawere Kongonya\u201d is a related throwback to the ancients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMukwasha\u201d, the first video quickly piled numbers and highlighted the artist\u2019s lighter side, driven by the classic JP theme of the henpecked son-in-law. Of the two collaborations on this album, the Zimpraise-assisted \u201cMiteuro\u201d is lyrically wobbly, while \u201cKana Ndada\u201d, featuring Zahara, continues the tradition of wholesome love songs. 2020 video of the year \u201cMunyaradzi\u201d is the heartbreak song that came to represent more permanent loss after its pretty vixen, Moana, died in a car crash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Kutonga Kwaro (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mnangagwa had officially launched Jerusarema<\/em> as new vice president in 2015, The Weevils, his Zanu PF faction had demolished their rival camp, Gamatox, in the race to succeed aging Mugabe. If you were looking to songwriters for prophecy, Leonard Zhakata\u2019s \u201cDamburambabvu\u201d (2000), \u201cVamwe voramba kushanda semajuru\/ vosarudza kuva zvipfukuto<\/em>\u201d \u2013 where Majuru could now be taken to mean Solomon and Joyce Mujuru\u2019s Gamatox faction while Zvipfukuto literally translated to Weevils \u2013 would have struck at the heart of Zanu PF\u2019s succession drama in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Zhakata\u2019s song had gone on, \u201cKupesana pamutsvairo\/ tichitsvaira nhunzvatunzva<\/em>\u201d (Fighting over the broom\/ as we sweep off trouble causers), suggesting that the Weevils\u2019 newly won equilibrium would be only temporary. True to the prophet\u2019s word, the Weevils split two ways into G40, fronted by first lady Grace Mugabe, and Lacoste, led by vice president Mnangagwa, before the end of 2015. When Lacoste\u2019s succession game-plan was hinted on Jah Prayzah\u2019s Mudhara Achauya<\/em> in 2016, the memo initially sailed beneath the G40 radar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon enough, though, Grace was slightly offended at the way Mnangagwa danced to the song at Zanu PF rallies, fists indicating towards his chest, as if he was the chosen one promised by the song. She led G40 in appropriating the song for themselves but the optics of it was unconvincing. They were fighting Mnangagwa\u2019s generals, and Jah Prayzah\u2019s brand as \u201cMusoja\u201d did not sit right for their camp. So they settled for another battle song, where Jah Prayzah had only been \u201cpolice commissioner\u201d Sulumani Chimbetu\u2019s guest artist. Recorded three years earlier, \u201cSean Timba\u201d had violent lyrics directed at music pirates. Mnangagwa was now Sean Timba, and his troubles at the hands of his enemies made good on the violence of the song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His victory was to be picture-perfect. Henpecked by Cde Mugabe\u2019s chatterbox wife, isolated in the party structures, survivor of assassination attempts, and overnight fugitive as the game of thrones switched up, Mnangagwa had, by default, shed his reputation as a cold and mean calculator. He would now come back to rule Zimbabwe with the aura of a persecuted messiah. And the film would not have been complete without a Jah Prayzah soundtrack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, Photo: @edmnangagwa Twitter Official<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, Jah Prayzah could no longer keep his cards under the table. Released just days before Mnangagwa\u2019s army-powered takeover, the message of \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d did not fly above anyone\u2019s head. Supposed ruling party thugs stoned the musician away from a funeral, smarting from his new anthem\u2019s devious pronouncements, \u201cSasikaiwo ngoma\/ nyangwe huku dzamaundura\/ nda\u2019akuchinja mutemo<\/em>,\u201d he seemed to be saying that G40 kingpins had prepared the feast that they would not partake in. When Mnangagwa came back to change the rules, everyone knew that this was his song, and Jah Prayzah\u2019s Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) ambassadorship made this interpretation final. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In our age of consensus-led conscience, canceling Jah Prayzah is just another episode in a never-ending comedy of errors<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But the head is heavy that chooses to wear a crown. Three years after the coup, Jah Prayzah\u2019s jewels twisted into thorns as some citizens who had equally danced in the streets made him the face of their \u201cNew Dispensation\u201d sorrows, even decampaigning him from international awards. In our age of consensus-led conscience, canceling Jah Prayzah is just another episode in a never-ending comedy of errors. He had only been in his 20s, and already self-made, when he stepped into the crossfire. And the motivation for branding himself as army ambassador had been his childhood dream to be a soldier, rather than political calculus. The album Mnangagwa officially launched for him had merely spoken to cultural patriotism, before he found himself in the deep end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jah Prayzah is popularly referred to by fans and media as \u201cMusoja\u201d, the Shona word for \u201csoldier\u201d. Photo credit: Jah Prayzah via Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d carries the weight of history, then \u201cMuchinjiko\u201d is the more ambitious song here. Some Zimbabweans came out against the song for contaminating the gospel with mbira and graveside incantations. As a matter of fact, Jah Prayzah\u2019s lyrics here are meticulously biblical. Guitarist Mono Mukundu compared the backlash to the way the mbira-guitar sound, not to speak of the mbira itself, is associated with demons in church while rock and other secular forms are Pentecostal staple fare. Some bloody job our Rhodesian teachers made of us! With more classics like \u201cChengetedza,\u201d the type of song you slide into a crushworthy DM or friend-zone convo before shooting your shot, Kutonga Kwaro is a terrible beauty in all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Tsviriyo (2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsviriyo<\/em> is peak Jah Prayzah. The somewhat busy album cover, showing the artist in military fatigues, a fire behind him, as Haile Selassie looks in approval from behind, signals Jah Prayzah\u2019s maximalist intentions. He never sings a bad song throughout the album. The Winky D shoutout on the 2013 title track, before the music rivalry of the decade, likely experienced by the audiences more than the artists anyway, is now as rare an artifact as Tongai Moyo wearing an Alick Macheso tee in a 2003 picture. Released in the golden year of Zimdancehall, to a five-trophy NAMA sweep the following year, the album would make Jah Prayzah something of his generation\u2019s claim to high culture, if not for his constant need to keep his crowd worked with bubblegum dance songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oliver Mtukudzi and Jah Prayzah. Photo credit: Jah Prayzah via Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On \u201cSunga,\u201d groupies and celebrity gossip have finally caught up with him, and now he must use songs to cleanse himself for wifey\u2019s information. The Oliver Mtukudzi collaboration, \u201cSisiria\u201d is spirited and well-placed.  While the late Superstar would go on to half-heartedly sign his prized baritone on countless features and remixes,  he is all in here, like he is consciously passing the torch. The silver lining to Jah Prayzah\u2019s first copyright controversy, caused by \u201cMwanasikana,\u201d is that the singer is culturally acquisitive, with his ears well beyond Zimbabwe. And the beauty of this album is that it has no clear hegemon. \u201cMachembere,\u201d as grounded a mbira song as one gets, goes head to head with the staccato jive song, \u201cMwanasikana,\u201d in the final analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First published by<\/em> This Is Africa. All rights reserved. Contact author at rukudzoonai@duck.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rukudzo Onai Jah Prayzah has been called a spirit medium for his culturally immersive performances. But the cards from which he read Zimbabwe\u2019s political fortunes were blank. \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d and \u201cMudhara Achauya,\u201d the now controversial songs he wrote as army ambassador, possessed Zimbabweans all the way into a long dry season. Seers and meddlers, no wiser themselves when the generals made history in November 2017, put all the sins of our youth on the singer. However, narrowing down Jah Prayzah\u2019s legacy to politics doesn\u2019t begin to do justice to his range and achievement.\u00a0 A roaring and smoking mbira song, one for the party animals, a Nollywood pity party to confuse the crush outside your league, and a two-season coup soundtrack \u2013 Jah Prayzah created the future by commanding the past, and delivered concepts we had no way of asking for.  Last week, the gangly griot from Uzumba interpreted Tairos Tendaupenyu\u2019s classic love song, \u201cFuruwa,\u201d for our time. Daring is a future admirer who will interpret Jah Prayzah for his own generation, not just because the Afropop great is not one artist, but also because nostalgia for Jah Prayzah years will be, at the same time, nostalgia for the older eras which today possess him. Furuwa Furuwa is a remix of a love song originally composed by Tairos Tendaupenyu. Photo credit: Jah Prayzah via Facebook. When the spirit medium arrived on the Harare scene, not quite 20 then, to kill off everything, he already had the memo. No young artist has been more committed to cultural memory \u2013 the full-moon folk register perfected on \u201cGoto\u201d, the mythic mix of traditional and African church sounds on \u201cBvumbamira\u201d and \u201cMuchinjiko\u201d, and old-time inspiration for odd songs, Steve Makoni on \u201cKunobuda Nezuva\u201d or  Ngwaru Mapundu on \u201cEmerina\u201d \u2013 since then.  No young Zimbabwean artist has been more committed to cultural memory than Jah Prayzah\u2014 always in peerless form as a cultural revivalist After setting the stage with Rudo Runyararo (2007) and dancehall-dabbling singles from those underground years, Jah Prayzah debuted proper with Sungano yeRudo (2010). He took over the conversation with Ngwarira Kuparara (2011)which spawned the Radio Zimbabwe song of 2012 and charted several songs. Tsviriyo (2013) consolidated the Jah Prayzah years, followed by Kumbumura Mhute (2014), Jerusarema (2015), Mudhara Achauya (2016), Kutonga Kwaro (2017), Chitubu (2018), Hokoyo (2020) and Gwara (2021).  In this countdown, we look back to the career-defining moments of a Zimbabwean hegemon who owned our 2010s. 6. Sungano Yerudo (2010) \u201cSungano\u201d was Jah Prayzah\u2019s CV song. As a singer, he could make a hit; as a songwriter, he was a poet; as a rookie, he had the ambition. He had spent his schooldays reading, in his own words, \u201cevery Shona novel written before 2000,\u201d and somewhat found his way around the language. He also played mbira, hands-on with his sound between two generations of handed-down beats. Instant nostalgia.  Narrowing down Jah Prayzah\u2019s legacy to politics doesn\u2019t begin to do justice to his range and achievement Coming hard upon urban grooves\u2019 dubious legacy as a genre of love songs, Jah Prayzah could not be faulted for singing the same theme throughout his first album. \u201cRuva reRudo\u201d proceeds on questionable patois and \u201cUri Ngirozi\u201d also finds Jah Prayzah singjaying, something of his early dancehall experiments in Budiriro and Chitungwiza. Things switch up on the sonic level:\u201cLisa\u201d sweats the young love theme but this time it\u2019s three Jah Prayzahs singing from different sheets at the same time. Much too mellow. 5. Mudhara Achauya (2016) A synthetic opening with touches of brass. The Oskidy beat feeds into the title video\u2019s military storyline. No one knew that this lightweight love song, punctuated with customary braggadocio, had a secret political life to it. Until it was too late for Cde Mugabe and his hangers-on. \u201cMudhara Achauya\u201d could even have been a mere love song but when fugitive vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa saw his old master off to the sound of \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d in November 2017, Zimbabweans suddenly sniffed conspiracy out of old Jah Prayzah songs. Even \u201cEmma\u201d, his collabo with frenemy Andy Muridzo, had to have meant Emmerson! \u201cGoto\u201d finds Jah Prayzah possessed by his ancestors, just showing off why he is untouchable in his time Away from the bloody waters, the collaboration with Tanzania\u2019s Diamond Platinumz was Jah Prayzah\u2019s strongest regional statement yet. \u201cWatora Mari\u201d also changed the business approach from sponsored DVD albums to ambitious YouTube singles that ran into million views. \u201cGoto\u201d finds Jah Prayzah possessed by his ancestors, just showing off why he is untouchable in his time. \u201cHossana\u201d and \u201cTsotsi\u201d are relatable, by now conceptually familiar, songs about a persecuted protagonist. Jah Prayzah still wants to remind us that he is self-made. Oliver Mtukudzi and Winky D perform a duet at Hifa in the Harare Gardens. Photo: Shorai Murwira\/This Is Africa There are also lazy songs here. It\u2019s not clear whether Jah Prayzah\u2019s slay queen described as \u201ckachocolate, kayellowbone\u201d is the victim of a botched skin job, or the recipient of half-hearted praise. I hated this album when it came out, but now it seems like it doesn\u2019t matter about the synthetic parts. Aside Gafa Futi, Winky D\u2019s monster release later that year, there isn\u2019t a more convincing way to musically reconstruct 2015 Harare and remember permanently unavailable exes. With nostalgia, even bad songs count. 4. Jerusarema (2015) Don\u2019t let the Watchtower scenery of the title video fool you. \u201cJerusarema\u201d is not about the New Earth. It is about the old world of mbede, a fertility dance renamed \u201cJerusarema\u201d by the people of Murehwa to distract Rhodesia\u2019s missionary censors. Once again, the album finds Jah Prayzah in peerless form as a cultural revivalist. But this is a pop album. Whereas old mbira masters hardly made the pop conversation, Jah Prayzah was reportedly grossing US$60 thousand per show off this album. The JP album template is defined on Jerusarema. Double-time party vibes, \u201cEriza\u201d and \u201cChinamira\u201d, idyllic sounds of the soil, \u201cJerusarema\u201d, and a territory-growing collabo, sung here with Luciano. Love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"yoast_head":"\nJah Prayzah\u2019s History As Told through His Best Albums | Blockspace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=3392\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jah Prayzah\u2019s History As Told through His Best Albums | Blockspace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Rukudzo Onai Jah Prayzah has been called a spirit medium for his culturally immersive performances. But the cards from which he read Zimbabwe\u2019s political fortunes were blank. \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d and \u201cMudhara Achauya,\u201d the now controversial songs he wrote as army ambassador, possessed Zimbabweans all the way into a long dry season. Seers and meddlers, no wiser themselves when the generals made history in November 2017, put all the sins of our youth on the singer. However, narrowing down Jah Prayzah\u2019s legacy to politics doesn\u2019t begin to do justice to his range and achievement.\u00a0 A roaring and smoking mbira song, one for the party animals, a Nollywood pity party to confuse the crush outside your league, and a two-season coup soundtrack \u2013 Jah Prayzah created the future by commanding the past, and delivered concepts we had no way of asking for.  Last week, the gangly griot from Uzumba interpreted Tairos Tendaupenyu\u2019s classic love song, \u201cFuruwa,\u201d for our time. Daring is a future admirer who will interpret Jah Prayzah for his own generation, not just because the Afropop great is not one artist, but also because nostalgia for Jah Prayzah years will be, at the same time, nostalgia for the older eras which today possess him. Furuwa Furuwa is a remix of a love song originally composed by Tairos Tendaupenyu. Photo credit: Jah Prayzah via Facebook. When the spirit medium arrived on the Harare scene, not quite 20 then, to kill off everything, he already had the memo. No young artist has been more committed to cultural memory \u2013 the full-moon folk register perfected on \u201cGoto\u201d, the mythic mix of traditional and African church sounds on \u201cBvumbamira\u201d and \u201cMuchinjiko\u201d, and old-time inspiration for odd songs, Steve Makoni on \u201cKunobuda Nezuva\u201d or  Ngwaru Mapundu on \u201cEmerina\u201d \u2013 since then.  No young Zimbabwean artist has been more committed to cultural memory than Jah Prayzah\u2014 always in peerless form as a cultural revivalist After setting the stage with Rudo Runyararo (2007) and dancehall-dabbling singles from those underground years, Jah Prayzah debuted proper with Sungano yeRudo (2010). He took over the conversation with Ngwarira Kuparara (2011)which spawned the Radio Zimbabwe song of 2012 and charted several songs. Tsviriyo (2013) consolidated the Jah Prayzah years, followed by Kumbumura Mhute (2014), Jerusarema (2015), Mudhara Achauya (2016), Kutonga Kwaro (2017), Chitubu (2018), Hokoyo (2020) and Gwara (2021).  In this countdown, we look back to the career-defining moments of a Zimbabwean hegemon who owned our 2010s. 6. Sungano Yerudo (2010) \u201cSungano\u201d was Jah Prayzah\u2019s CV song. As a singer, he could make a hit; as a songwriter, he was a poet; as a rookie, he had the ambition. He had spent his schooldays reading, in his own words, \u201cevery Shona novel written before 2000,\u201d and somewhat found his way around the language. He also played mbira, hands-on with his sound between two generations of handed-down beats. Instant nostalgia.  Narrowing down Jah Prayzah\u2019s legacy to politics doesn\u2019t begin to do justice to his range and achievement Coming hard upon urban grooves\u2019 dubious legacy as a genre of love songs, Jah Prayzah could not be faulted for singing the same theme throughout his first album. \u201cRuva reRudo\u201d proceeds on questionable patois and \u201cUri Ngirozi\u201d also finds Jah Prayzah singjaying, something of his early dancehall experiments in Budiriro and Chitungwiza. Things switch up on the sonic level:\u201cLisa\u201d sweats the young love theme but this time it\u2019s three Jah Prayzahs singing from different sheets at the same time. Much too mellow. 5. Mudhara Achauya (2016) A synthetic opening with touches of brass. The Oskidy beat feeds into the title video\u2019s military storyline. No one knew that this lightweight love song, punctuated with customary braggadocio, had a secret political life to it. Until it was too late for Cde Mugabe and his hangers-on. \u201cMudhara Achauya\u201d could even have been a mere love song but when fugitive vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa saw his old master off to the sound of \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d in November 2017, Zimbabweans suddenly sniffed conspiracy out of old Jah Prayzah songs. Even \u201cEmma\u201d, his collabo with frenemy Andy Muridzo, had to have meant Emmerson! \u201cGoto\u201d finds Jah Prayzah possessed by his ancestors, just showing off why he is untouchable in his time Away from the bloody waters, the collaboration with Tanzania\u2019s Diamond Platinumz was Jah Prayzah\u2019s strongest regional statement yet. \u201cWatora Mari\u201d also changed the business approach from sponsored DVD albums to ambitious YouTube singles that ran into million views. \u201cGoto\u201d finds Jah Prayzah possessed by his ancestors, just showing off why he is untouchable in his time. \u201cHossana\u201d and \u201cTsotsi\u201d are relatable, by now conceptually familiar, songs about a persecuted protagonist. Jah Prayzah still wants to remind us that he is self-made. Oliver Mtukudzi and Winky D perform a duet at Hifa in the Harare Gardens. Photo: Shorai Murwira\/This Is Africa There are also lazy songs here. It\u2019s not clear whether Jah Prayzah\u2019s slay queen described as \u201ckachocolate, kayellowbone\u201d is the victim of a botched skin job, or the recipient of half-hearted praise. I hated this album when it came out, but now it seems like it doesn\u2019t matter about the synthetic parts. Aside Gafa Futi, Winky D\u2019s monster release later that year, there isn\u2019t a more convincing way to musically reconstruct 2015 Harare and remember permanently unavailable exes. With nostalgia, even bad songs count. 4. Jerusarema (2015) Don\u2019t let the Watchtower scenery of the title video fool you. \u201cJerusarema\u201d is not about the New Earth. It is about the old world of mbede, a fertility dance renamed \u201cJerusarema\u201d by the people of Murehwa to distract Rhodesia\u2019s missionary censors. Once again, the album finds Jah Prayzah in peerless form as a cultural revivalist. But this is a pop album. Whereas old mbira masters hardly made the pop conversation, Jah Prayzah was reportedly grossing US$60 thousand per show off this album. The JP album template is defined on Jerusarema. Double-time party vibes, \u201cEriza\u201d and \u201cChinamira\u201d, idyllic sounds of the soil, \u201cJerusarema\u201d, and a territory-growing collabo, sung here with Luciano. 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But the cards from which he read Zimbabwe\u2019s political fortunes were blank. \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d and \u201cMudhara Achauya,\u201d the now controversial songs he wrote as army ambassador, possessed Zimbabweans all the way into a long dry season. Seers and meddlers, no wiser themselves when the generals made history in November 2017, put all the sins of our youth on the singer. However, narrowing down Jah Prayzah\u2019s legacy to politics doesn\u2019t begin to do justice to his range and achievement.\u00a0 A roaring and smoking mbira song, one for the party animals, a Nollywood pity party to confuse the crush outside your league, and a two-season coup soundtrack \u2013 Jah Prayzah created the future by commanding the past, and delivered concepts we had no way of asking for.  Last week, the gangly griot from Uzumba interpreted Tairos Tendaupenyu\u2019s classic love song, \u201cFuruwa,\u201d for our time. Daring is a future admirer who will interpret Jah Prayzah for his own generation, not just because the Afropop great is not one artist, but also because nostalgia for Jah Prayzah years will be, at the same time, nostalgia for the older eras which today possess him. Furuwa Furuwa is a remix of a love song originally composed by Tairos Tendaupenyu. Photo credit: Jah Prayzah via Facebook. When the spirit medium arrived on the Harare scene, not quite 20 then, to kill off everything, he already had the memo. No young artist has been more committed to cultural memory \u2013 the full-moon folk register perfected on \u201cGoto\u201d, the mythic mix of traditional and African church sounds on \u201cBvumbamira\u201d and \u201cMuchinjiko\u201d, and old-time inspiration for odd songs, Steve Makoni on \u201cKunobuda Nezuva\u201d or  Ngwaru Mapundu on \u201cEmerina\u201d \u2013 since then.  No young Zimbabwean artist has been more committed to cultural memory than Jah Prayzah\u2014 always in peerless form as a cultural revivalist After setting the stage with Rudo Runyararo (2007) and dancehall-dabbling singles from those underground years, Jah Prayzah debuted proper with Sungano yeRudo (2010). He took over the conversation with Ngwarira Kuparara (2011)which spawned the Radio Zimbabwe song of 2012 and charted several songs. Tsviriyo (2013) consolidated the Jah Prayzah years, followed by Kumbumura Mhute (2014), Jerusarema (2015), Mudhara Achauya (2016), Kutonga Kwaro (2017), Chitubu (2018), Hokoyo (2020) and Gwara (2021).  In this countdown, we look back to the career-defining moments of a Zimbabwean hegemon who owned our 2010s. 6. Sungano Yerudo (2010) \u201cSungano\u201d was Jah Prayzah\u2019s CV song. As a singer, he could make a hit; as a songwriter, he was a poet; as a rookie, he had the ambition. He had spent his schooldays reading, in his own words, \u201cevery Shona novel written before 2000,\u201d and somewhat found his way around the language. He also played mbira, hands-on with his sound between two generations of handed-down beats. Instant nostalgia.  Narrowing down Jah Prayzah\u2019s legacy to politics doesn\u2019t begin to do justice to his range and achievement Coming hard upon urban grooves\u2019 dubious legacy as a genre of love songs, Jah Prayzah could not be faulted for singing the same theme throughout his first album. \u201cRuva reRudo\u201d proceeds on questionable patois and \u201cUri Ngirozi\u201d also finds Jah Prayzah singjaying, something of his early dancehall experiments in Budiriro and Chitungwiza. Things switch up on the sonic level:\u201cLisa\u201d sweats the young love theme but this time it\u2019s three Jah Prayzahs singing from different sheets at the same time. Much too mellow. 5. Mudhara Achauya (2016) A synthetic opening with touches of brass. The Oskidy beat feeds into the title video\u2019s military storyline. No one knew that this lightweight love song, punctuated with customary braggadocio, had a secret political life to it. Until it was too late for Cde Mugabe and his hangers-on. \u201cMudhara Achauya\u201d could even have been a mere love song but when fugitive vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa saw his old master off to the sound of \u201cKutonga Kwaro\u201d in November 2017, Zimbabweans suddenly sniffed conspiracy out of old Jah Prayzah songs. Even \u201cEmma\u201d, his collabo with frenemy Andy Muridzo, had to have meant Emmerson! \u201cGoto\u201d finds Jah Prayzah possessed by his ancestors, just showing off why he is untouchable in his time Away from the bloody waters, the collaboration with Tanzania\u2019s Diamond Platinumz was Jah Prayzah\u2019s strongest regional statement yet. \u201cWatora Mari\u201d also changed the business approach from sponsored DVD albums to ambitious YouTube singles that ran into million views. \u201cGoto\u201d finds Jah Prayzah possessed by his ancestors, just showing off why he is untouchable in his time. \u201cHossana\u201d and \u201cTsotsi\u201d are relatable, by now conceptually familiar, songs about a persecuted protagonist. Jah Prayzah still wants to remind us that he is self-made. Oliver Mtukudzi and Winky D perform a duet at Hifa in the Harare Gardens. Photo: Shorai Murwira\/This Is Africa There are also lazy songs here. It\u2019s not clear whether Jah Prayzah\u2019s slay queen described as \u201ckachocolate, kayellowbone\u201d is the victim of a botched skin job, or the recipient of half-hearted praise. I hated this album when it came out, but now it seems like it doesn\u2019t matter about the synthetic parts. Aside Gafa Futi, Winky D\u2019s monster release later that year, there isn\u2019t a more convincing way to musically reconstruct 2015 Harare and remember permanently unavailable exes. With nostalgia, even bad songs count. 4. Jerusarema (2015) Don\u2019t let the Watchtower scenery of the title video fool you. \u201cJerusarema\u201d is not about the New Earth. It is about the old world of mbede, a fertility dance renamed \u201cJerusarema\u201d by the people of Murehwa to distract Rhodesia\u2019s missionary censors. Once again, the album finds Jah Prayzah in peerless form as a cultural revivalist. But this is a pop album. Whereas old mbira masters hardly made the pop conversation, Jah Prayzah was reportedly grossing US$60 thousand per show off this album. The JP album template is defined on Jerusarema. Double-time party vibes, \u201cEriza\u201d and \u201cChinamira\u201d, idyllic sounds of the soil, \u201cJerusarema\u201d, and a territory-growing collabo, sung here with Luciano. 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