SONGBIRDS Selmor Mtukudzi and Mary Anibal are optimistic that their recent performances at the prestigious Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar will propel them to more stages across the world. The festival, widely regarded as one of Africa’s best, combines music, dance and theatre. It ran between February 9 and 11 in Stone Town. Hangasa…
NATIONAL Arts Merit Awards (Nama) nominees are set to be announced today ahead of the 22nd Nama ceremony to be held at Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre in Bulawayo. The country’s premier arts awards, this year running under the theme “Kwa22,” will see artists being honoured in categories such as Music, Dance, Literary Arts, Visual Arts,…
DECORATED Chimurenga artiste Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo says 2024 has started on a sad note for him. This comes after he lost his sister last month, barely two years after burying his brother Lancelot Mapfumo. Lancelot, one of the pioneers of the Blacks Unlimited band, succumbed to cancer at the age of 68. “I was very…
TOP divas Chipo Muchegwa, Pauline Gundidza and Cindy Munyavi are among musicians who have lined up new songs to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The day — celebrated every February 14 in different countries — is arguably the second most popular card-sending holiday after Christmas as approximately 150 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually. “Music is…
SUNGURA kingpin Alick Macheso is set to introduce his sons— Tatenda and Esau— to his fans in the diaspora this year. According to Tich Makahamadze, Orchestra Mberikwazvo publicist, preparations for the international tour, which are expected to start in the United Kingdom around mid-year, are well on course.“Our fans abroad have been complaining. The time…
ON this day, five years ago, Zimbabwe and the world at large lost a dedicated and fine musician Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi. Ever since, so many things changed in the music industry and his colleagues in the creative sector remember Tuku— the first musician to be declared national hero— for his outstanding talent and work ethics…
RENOWNED apostle and author Eunor Guti aka Mai Guti’s second book, Eunor Guti A Memoir of Faith and Service, fetched more than US$20 000 at its launch held at the Harare International Conference Centre on Saturday. In the book, which chronicles Mai Guti’s life, from her humble beginnings to the present day, she expressed her…
THE Financial Gazette — the country’s number one business publication — and its fast-growing national television station stablemate, 3Ktv, have bagged more…
IT would appear it has finally dawned on Bryn Taurai Mteki that the office of the President is a bridge too far. Mteki, who has made a name for himself as musician and sculptor, took part in the 2018 Harmonised elections as an independent presidential candidate. But the talented artist garnered just 2 732 votes,…
THE ARTS sector has been plunged into mourning following the death of veteran actor and filmmaker Watson Chidzomba, 73. Chidzomba, who once worked as an administrator at the late music icon and national hero Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi’s Pakare Paye Arts Centre, died on Thursday at a private hospital in Norton where he was being treated…
