HARARE – Youthfull singer, composer and musician Tina Watyoka will launch her second album, Ndoita Sei? at Book Café on Thursday. The event is expected to be graced by seasoned musicians Victor Kunonga and Alexio Kawara, whom she names among her mentors. The lively and gifted artist has determinedly and doggedly pursued music from a…
HARARE – Shiga Shiga, real name Gift Katulika, finally launched his solo career last week with an album titled Two Years Later. Shiga Shiga made a name in the showbiz circuit while he performed with the late Tongai Moyo and briefly worked with Peter Moyo before he joined Energy Mutodi. The album launch held at…
HARARE – Population Services International (PSI) Zimbabwe has insisted that popular musician Jah Prayzah was circumcised following a sterling performance barely three days after getting the nip. Jah Prayzah’s energetic performance at the 21st February Movement gala raised public scepticism that he had been circumcised. But PSI said the pre-pex device Jah Prayzah opted for…
HARARE – Zenzele Ndebele, Radio Dialogue production manager, has been summoned to appear before a Bulawayo Magistrate on March 6 on charges of contravening broadcasting laws. The summons comealmost a year after Ndebele’s arrest during a police raid on Radio Dialogue that saw police seize 180 radio sets. Ndebele subsequently appeared in court on April…
HARARE – When Portia Gwanzura formed traditional music group Hohodza in the 1992, she never realised that she was creating a mentorship platform for her six year old son. The Hohodza founder’s son Robert ‘RobyGee Moyondizvo’ Gwanzura (27), who has just released an album called Moyondizvo, credits the once popular group for providing the early…
HARARE – Celebrated Afro-fusion group Mokoomba will leave for Denmark this morning to embark on a 10-country tour that will involve maiden appearances in Australia and New Zealand. The internationally recognised group, whose album Rising Tide recently scooped the global Songlines Newcomer Award, will also tour Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland…
HARARE – Edith “WeUtonga” Katiji has hit out at the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) for failing to come up with clear criteria governing the selection of National Arts Merit Award (Nama) winners. The famous bassist and vocalist, who along with Selmor Mtukudzi controversially lost the National Arts Merit Award (Nama) Outstanding Female Musician…
HARARE – Afro-fusion artiste Alexio Kawara, who was involved in an accident that left him with a broken leg in December last year, will return to the stage on Thursday at the Zimbabwe German Society (ZGS). The Shaina hit-maker, whose last concert was the launch of his latest single Zvazvinhu on Christmas Eve, is confident…
HARARE – Nafuna TV creator Nqobizitha ‘Enqore’ Mlilo is delighted to have been included among 10 Africans with exceptional web-based success stories by a Google initiative called Africa Connected. The other shortlisted innovators are Sitawa Wafula (Kenya), Mayowa Adegbile (Nigeria), Eunice Namirembe (Uganda), Eric Obuh (Nigeria), Lamine Mbengue (Senegal), Timothy Maguire (South Africa), Christopher Panford…
HARARE – For five days last week, Harare-based Upper Room Ministries Church performed their play called Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames. Upper Room Ministries worked in conjunction with a South Africa-based non-denominational Christian entity, Reality Outreach Ministries to do the play. The fear-provoking play dramatises life after death. It demonstrates the Biblical belief that sinners…
