HARARE – Sungurura star Alick Macheso and music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi are among a host musicians scheduled to grace the launch of the month-long Leonard Dembo commemorations to be hosted by Dandaro Inn on April 7. The event will see Suluman Chimbetu, Soul Jah Love, Jah Prayzah, Peter Moyo, Lyn ‘Eriza’ Magodo, Beverly Sibanda, Seh…
HARARE – Brick & Lace’s Nyanda and South Africa-based rap star Gigi Lamayne, who featured on the Club ‘E’ presenter/producer Miss V Candy’s debut song titled Mayhem, are expected in Harare at the end of April. Miss V Candy, who also featured American music star Kat Dahlia on the yet-to-be-released song, told the Daily News…
BULAWAYO – Afro Jazz musician Jeys Marabini said he will not submit to piracy by selling his album for $1 — instead he is selling it for $10 a copy. Marabini launched his 12-track eighth album, Thula Sana at a well-attended show at Bulawayo Theatre over the weekend. Unlike Sungura ace Alick Macheso who had…
HARARE – Over Easter holiday, Sungura King Alick Macheso brought the house down with his new album Tsoka Dzerwendo at the The Platinum Bar in Mutare, where hundreds of music fans packed the joint to the rafters. For the first time and true to its registered high selling figures of over 150 000 copies, the…
HARARE – Two-time Zimbabwe Fashion Week (ZFW) Blogger of the Year Ameera Murad Ameer says the country’s budding fashion industry is ready for a big take-off despite the challenges it faces. Ameer, whose blog, Kicking it with Mimi won two consecutive awards from 2014, attributes the renewed energy on the Zimbabwean fashion scene to a…
HARARE – For Austria-based artiste Futurelove Sibanda, art is a mere expression of oneself regardless of whatever form it takes. The former member of Inkululeko Yabatsha School of Arts (Iyasa) recently pulled a shocker when he displayed on social media a collage of his “nude” pictures captured in a bush and on a beach. Surprisingly,…
HARARE – Zimdancehall sensation Dobba Don says his hit Mudendere and the Most Promising Artist gong he landed at the recent Zimdancehall Awards have catapulted him into the limelight. The 21-year-old artiste, who was born Dumalisile Mehlomakhulu, is delighted to be getting some recognition at long last. “When I was nominated for the Zimdancehall Awards,…
HARARE – Veteran South African music star PJ Powers will headline a gig set for Old Georgians Sports Club in Harare on May 7. The concert seeks to raise funds to support a specialised anti-poaching dog unit. The 52-year-old musician, who is probably best known in Zimbabwe for the hits Jabulani and There is an…
HARARE – Hundreds of ecstatic fans attended the launch of sungura kingpin Alick Macheso’s 10th album Tsoka Dzerwendo (Ayayaa) at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Thursday night. The fact that the sungura star last released an album four years ago, was probably the key reason why Macheso and partners — Jive Zimbabwe, Nash…
HARARE – The Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) has lined up a series of events that will take place in the run-up to their 2017 edition. Hifa announced in October last year that they had decided not to hold their six-day event this year to allow them “to step back, reinvent and come…
