HARARE – One venue, 24 hours apart, different crowd, different class. That is an observation anyone who happened to be at Greencroft’s Casa de Castilla Night Club on both Friday and Saturday nights would not have possibly missed after Jah Prayzah and Soul Jah Love — two of Zimbabwean contemporary music’s hottest artistes — left…
MUTARE – Award-winning gospel star Blessing Shumba says he is not keen on receiving great fame at the expense of the important Christian messages in his music. The Mutare-based musician told the Daily News he will happily go anonymous as long as his music touches millions. “l have come to the conclusion that people don’t…
HARARE – Veteran musician Leonard Zhakata, whose two songs Dhonza Makomborero and Dollar Boy topped the annual Radio Zimbabwe Coca Cola Top 50, says at long last Zimbabweans now genuinely understand his music. The Mugove singer told the Daily News that in the past, misinterpretation of his well-meaning music caused national radio stations to shun…
MUTARE – Husky-voiced George “Jiggaz” Tanjani says it is a sign of weakness for an established dancehall artiste to approach a fellow musician for collaboration. Jiggaz, father to dancehall protégé Spiderman, told the Daily News on Sunday that it is generally regarded as a taboo in real dancehall for an established artiste to place himself…
HARARE – Controversial businessman-cum-musician Energy Mutodi says landing position one on the National FM Top 50 songs of the year has encouraged him to urgently push for a new album. Mutodi’s winning song Runyararo is about the factionalism that has rocked the ruling Zanu PF. In the song, he urges the party’s president to address…
HARARE – Rising songstress Cynthia Mare appears to have shrugged off the controversy that dogged the three awards she won at Last October’s Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima). Mare turned up at the Zima ceremony very much an underdog but by the end of the night she had picked up three gongs in the Best Alternative…
HARARE – Zora star Leonard Zhakata’s songs Dhonza Makomborero and Dollar Boy respectively claimed first and second position in this year’s Coca-Cola Radio Zimbabwe Top 50. The two winning songs are from Zhakata’s latest seven-track album Zvangu Zvaita. The Zora singer, who last dominated music charts in similar fashion in the mid-1994 when he released…
BULAWAYO – Dendera star Suluman Chimbetu officially unveiled his latest album “Gunship” at Club Forty Forty in Zimbabwe’s second largest city on Friday night. Though the 10-track album, first launched in the capital end of November, has attracted mixed reactions across the country, Bulawayo fans seemed satisfied with the quality of the new offering judging…
HARARE – Zimbabwean Rnb songstress Cindy Munyavi landed the Best Female Artiste in Southern Africa award at the Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) ceremony held at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos on Saturday night. The Zimbabwean diva beat continental music heavyweights that included Zahara and Lira from South Africa as well former Big Brother Africa (BBA)…
HARARE – Buhera-based Makumbe High school has released a maiden gospel album titled Nomoyo Wose to mark the school’s 100 years in existence. All songs on the seven-track album , which is accompanied by a DVD compilation,were composed by ex- Makumbe High school student Elly Mhungu who co-produced the album with renowned producer Clive Mono…
