Life & Arts

MUSICIANS in the City of Kings are advocating for a Bulawayo version of ‘Nash TV’ saying the Harare television station has greatly assisted artists in the capital during the Covid-19 lockdown.

AS COVID-19 continues to ravage the world, the local sculpture industry has been hit hard by the absence of international tourists, who make up the bulk of its customers.

THE Covid-19 lockdown has come as a blessing for poet Misheck Jaravaza who together with his close friend Thabo Quedani have had time to put together a collection of their poems.

NINETY drummers are set to benefit from this year’s edition of Drum Clinic workshop pencilled for February courtesy of Zimbabwe Drum Fiesta.

ZIMBABWE’s multi-award-winning and first generation sculptor Lazarus Takawira has died of Covid-19.

BULAWAYO Help Network (BHN), a charity organisation has appealed for funding to help ailing Bulawayo Music Festival founder and coordinator Michael Bullivant.

THE Netherlands-based songbird, choreographer and dancer, Vimbai Zimuto, is set to drop a music video on YouTube titled Handigone on Thursday starring South Africa-based actor, comedian and voice artist Leroy Gopal.

ABOUT 100 musicians from about 1 000 that applied for the Covid-19 Relief Fund last year have received $5 000 each, the Zimbabwe Union of Musicians (Zum) has confirmed.

MULTI-award- WINNING novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga, pictured, has been awarded the 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression.

NESANGO the film, a Jenaguru Arts Centre production, is set to premiere between March and April as part of national Independence Day celebrations.

DENDERA musician Tryson Chimbetu says the title of his latest album — Chii Chakadaro — is not meant as an affront to fellow dendera musicians Suluman and Allan’s latest offerings. 

IT IS safe to say that Selmor Mtukudzi was destined for the glitz and glamour of showbiz due to the influence of her late father, Oliver, a revered African music legend.

SUNGURA musician Peter “Young Igwe” Moyo is taking advantage of the lockdown period to perfect his fifth album, set for release in the first half of this year.

CHOICE Kanyongo-Gilbert might be thousands of kilometres away from her childhood home after relocating to the United States —but her rural area, Mutoko, means everything and remains close to her heart.

CHITUNGWIZA Harmony Singers continued their dominance in regional choir competitions as they won the grand prize in the inaugural Festival of Song Awards held in the capital recently.

BULAWAYO-based author and publisher Marshal Chiza has finally settled for January for the release of his book that exclusively looks at the country’s first citizen, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Byo rapper on MTV awards shortlist

A FORMER top cop from Bulawayo who recently retired to concentrate on his writing dream is back with another must read book, Whispers of the mind.

HWANGE will this year play host to Matabeleland North’s annual mobile Shangano Arts Festival.

CONTROVERSIAL Zimdancehall chanter Soul Jah Love, pictured, was last week arrested, again, after he failed to fulfil a concert in Kadoma, the Daily News reports.

BEVERLY Sibanda has reunited with her ex-boyfriend Andy Muridzo in a new song titled Kumhamba.

Fast growing food outlet — Hot Plate Grill House — specialising in exclusive traditional African cuisine has so far opened 10 outlets around Zimbabwe.

MUSICIANS and promoters are pleading with government so it opens up the music sector as they feel that they are being neglected.

BEYOND  insomnia, Covid-19 disrupted many of our living patterns in general and heightened many people’s level of anxiety and stress. 

SOCIALITE Mitchelle Amuli’s mother Yolanda Kuvaoga is organising a ‘befitting’ memorial service for her late daughter as she claims the diva was ‘buried like a dog,’ the Daily News on Sunday reports.