HARARE – Green Shoots 2015, an exhibition which features the works of 42 National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) School of Visual Arts and Design graduate students, opened on January 14 and will run until February 15. Green Shoots seeks to bring the works by these graduate students to the National Gallery of Zimbabwe audience and…
HARARE – South African House music group Mi Casa is expected to rekindle their love affair with Harare at 7 Arts Theatre on March 4. The talented South African trio, who were arguably the stand-out performers at the 2013 edition of the Harare International Festival of Arts (Hifa), will the share stage with Tonga rhythms…
HARARE – Music sensation Hope Masike believes being nominated for the 2016 KORA All-Africa Awards is a major career achievement in her artistic career that commenced in 2009. KORA is regarded as the biggest musical event in Africa and is broadcast live to more than 700 million viewers in 82 countries worldwide. While the late…
HARARE – Zimdancehall star Winky D’s hit ‘Disappear’-produced by Oskid at KeNako Muzik- has made it into the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio 1Extra Destination Africa Top 5. The track, off the Ninja president’s 10-track latest album ‘Gafa Life,’ which was arguably the most played song during the just-ended festive season, debuted on number five…
HARARE – Recent claims that local music star Jah Prayzah plagiarised the concept of Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz’s ‘Mdogo Mdogo’ on his ‘Jerusarema’ video has put Zimbabwean music in the dock. While the Tsviriyo singer was only one viciously attacked in the court of public opinion, the Daily News on Sunday has established that the plagiarising…
BULAWAYO – Actress Musawenkosi Sibanda (22) is the odd one out in a family dominated by white-collar professionals. Despite having no family role mode to look up to, Sibanda, the last-born child in a family of four, has become a firm favourite of playwrights and directors in Bulawayo’s blossoming theatre sector. “I never had acting…
HARARE – Oskid, who produced hit tracks on Killer T’s ‘Ngoma Ndaimba’ and Winky D’s ‘Gafa Life: Kickstape’-the hottest albums of 2015-could soon be working with Nigerian music star Wizkid. The Gweru-born producer, who has suddenly become synonymous with the very best of Zimbabwean music, told the Daily News on Sunday that people representing Wizkid…
HARARE – Rapper Tapiwa ‘BigTee’ Sekete is happy with the success registered by the Ghetto Gospel Movement that he formed late last year to promote upcoming hip hop talent in the ghettoes. BigTee launched the Ghetto Gospel Movement in November 2015 at Mushandira Pamwe Hotel in Highfield with help from his brother, businessman Fungai Sekete….
HARARE – Award-winning performance poet Linda Gabriel has been selected for six-week artist-in-residency at AfricAvenir in Berlin, Germany. Gabriel’s residency, at the Berlin-based non-governmental and non-profit organisation that promotes political and cultural education from an African perspective, will run from February 1 to March 12. The talented performance poet told the Daily News that she…
HARARE – Dubai looks set to become a popular destination for local gospel music stars thanks to a music promotion called Shotey Entertainment run by Zimbabweans based in United Arab Emirates’ most populous city. Shotey Entertainment, formed by husband and wife team, Shorai and Tendai Karimatsenga, hosted rising gospel star Takesure Zamar Ncube on Christmas…
