HARARE – Reggae star Mike “MicInity” Madamombe will launch his much-anticipated second album titled Survivor at Misty’s Newlands tonight. Interestingly, the Marondera-born artiste is launching his 12-track new offering on his birthday. Survivor, is being released four years after his successful debut offering Freedom. All the songs on the album except the title track were…
HARARE – Throughout her 15-year gospel music career, Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave has never shied away from controversy. The former Mutoko High School student has repeatedly divided public opinion by spotting dreadlocks and integrating the mbira sound into her music, acts viewed with skepticism by some Christians. In keeping with her appetite for the unusual, the Makomborero…
HARARE – Winners of the Radio Zimbabwe Coca Cola top 50 have described the end-of-year music charts as a good yardstick of gauging their popularity. Leonard Zhakata, whose two songs Dhonza Makomborero and Dollar Boy topped the annual charts, told the Daily News that he owed his victory to Zimbabwean music fans. “It just shows…
HARARE – Star FM DJ Ndumiso “Skywalker” Dube, who was arrested on Monday for defaulting on a $100 monthly maintenance for a child he sired with Getrude Maseko, was rescued by a friend after spending the night in cells. The controversial DJ was arrested soon after being ordered by magistrate Trevor Nyatsanza to pay $80…
HARARE – Utakataka Express chanter Shiga Shiga, who retraced his footsteps back to the band at the end of last year, has vowed to restore Peter Moyo (his boss)’s waning fortunes. Shiga Shiga, real name Gift Katulika, who left the band soon after Tongai Moyo’s death to join Energy Mutodi’s group before a brief stay…
HARARE – After only a month of working as a part-time DJ on the Drive Time slot on Star FM, veteran broadcaster Tichafa Matambanadzo, popularly known as Tich Mataz by his followers has been removed from air, and slotted into the production side. Mataz returned to the station in November last year as a presenter…
HARARE – Hollywood-based Zimbabwean actor Tongayi Arnold Chirisa features in The Jim Gaffigan Show that is set to make a debut appearance on Comedy Central. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the comedy revolves around Jim (Gaffigan) a guy who lives with his wife Jeannie (Mira Sorvino) and five kids in a 2-bedroom New York apartment….
BULAWAYO – Ngomahuru Theatre Company has come up with an enthralling play on the thorny issue of tribalism that has haunted the country since time immemorial. The play titled Dance for Peace was recently performed by the Harare-based theatre group during the Plays On Sunday programme at Amakhosi Cultural Centre in the City of Kings….
HARARE – All is set for the first ever Danish Film Festival to be held in Zimbabwe which will run at Alliance Francaise Harare on Wednesday and Thursday this week. The two-day festival, being organised by the Royal Danish Embassy Office in association with the Danish Film, will have no entry charge. Erik Brøgger Rasmussen,…
HARARE – Reggae star Mike “MicInity” Madamombe will launch his much-anticipated second album at Misty’s in Newlands on January 23 which happens to be the Marondera-born artiste’s birthday. The 12-track album, fittingly titled Survivor, is being unleashed four years after the release of his successful debut offering Freedom. All the songs on the album except…
