HARARE – Mbira star Hope Masike, who has just returned from a tour of the US and Germany, will present her blend of mbira, Afro-grooves and Jazz at the Book Café tonight. Masike’s first show on Zimbabwean soil in months will also feature the mbira star’s former drummer and Zimboita member Blessing Chimanga and Cape…
HARARE – Dendera artiste Douglas Chimbetu and popular comedian Uncle Ritchie of the Zvinombofamba Sei fame will be among the star performers at the inaugural Hurungwe Arts Festival which takes place this weekend. Joel Zilala, one of the organisers of the arts showcase, told the Daily News that Mashonaland West’s first ever festival will be…
HARARE – Despite the fact that the Miss World Pageant began five days ago, the Miss Zimbabwe Trust insisted yesterday that national beauty queen Tendai Hunda will fly to London for the global beauty competition as soon as she secures a visa. Hunda — the third Miss Zimbabwe to be crowned within the last five…
MUTARE – South Africa-based female gospel artiste Samantha “Samm” Torindoh is accepting menstrual pads as payment for her just-released album titled My Morning. The Mutare-born Samm, who lives with her husband in South Africa where she is a session musician on the gospel music circuit, told the Daily News in the eastern border city that…
HARARE – Against all odds, songstress Cynthia Mare surprised music critics and fans alike by landing three awards at the Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) last month. But instead of generating positive media coverage for the rising singer, Mare’s winning of the Best Alternative Music Award, Best Single and Best Female Artiste gongs on the strength…
HARARE – Mutare’s Runn Family marked their second show in Harare in 15 years with a scintillating performance on the Book Café main stage on Saturday night. The veteran band, which last performed in the Zimbabwean capital city in April after being in limbo for over a decade and half, turned on the style in…
LONDON – I have been working tirelessly on the 54faces website as it is long overdue. I am really proud of this baby of mine and I hope that I will able to execute it in the way that I envisaged. I feel that in order for me to finally say I am a successful…
HARARE – Comedian Carl Joshua Ncube has accused fellow award-winning jester Edgar Langeveldt of sexually assaulting his wife, Nelsy. Ncube, whose relationship with the feisty Langeveldt has been frosty for years, claimed on Facebook that he nearly beat up “the miscreant of comic society.” “I am sure by tomorrow you would have found out that…
BULAWAYO – Dancehall musician Felix Debwe better known in music circles as Centre Party has been caught in a storm following revelations that he dumped his wife and three children to allegedly cohabit with his mistress. The stunning disclosure came out last week after the musician applied for a maintenance variation at the Tredgold Magistrates’…
HARARE – Recent events concerning the ill-fated Zimdancehall Sting 2014 event at the City Sports Centre have taken centre stage in the media yet there are some pieces still missing from the whole puzzling affair. Different versions have been advanced as to what really happened and who caused the mayhem, but instead more questions have…
