HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s most followed dancehall artistes – Kelvin Kusikwenyu aka Killer T – has collaborated with Jah Prayzah on his forthcoming album which he says is a testament of the hours he put in the studio in preparation for its release. The album will be released on April 7. Refreshingly, Killer T…
HARARE – NIGERIA-based TV personality and model Vimbai Mutinhiri has waded into Zimbabwe’s toxic politics by applauding her father – retired brigadier-general Ambrose Mutinhiri for accepting to lead the fledgling National Patriotic Front (NPF) party as its founding president. The NPF is former president Robert Mugabe’s response to the new government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s biggest colour party continues to attract interest with online tickets to this year’s sprint sold out — six months ahead of schedule. Dubbed “The Zimbabwe Colour Sprint”, this year’s event which would be held in September at Borrowdale Race Course, in Harare, is expected to break attendance records. “The Rainbow Run is…
HARARE – Miss Albinism beauty pageant which had been derailed by financial woes last year, will finally be held this year at the 1+1 Club at Longchen Plaza next Friday. Pageant organisers told the Daily News yesterday that they are still looking for sponsorship. “So far we have only managed to secure well-wishers to sponsor…
HARARE – Master of song – Oliver Mtukudzi does not intend to seek a court injunction to stop his former publicist from publishing a second tell-all book about his life – but instead says he has no time for “every barking dog”. The celebrated lanky musician was in 2015 miffed by his former publicist —…
HARARE – Dutch DJs, Bali Bandits, will join an impressive cast at the third edition of the annual DJ party — Sonic Wonderland — at this year’s Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa). This year’s Hifa runs from May 1 to 6. Sonic Wonderland features local and visiting Electronic Dance Music. The late-running gig…
HARARE – Suluman Chimbetu’s publicist — Joe “Local” Nyamungoma — will celebrate his 40th birthday tonight with a performance on the decks at a local club marking an entry into the world of the popular nightclub DJs. Nyamungoma will be celebrating his birthday at Harare’s Club 263 by taking the DJ slots for the first…
BULAWAYO – Effervescent Jeys Marabini has gone back into the studio where he is putting final touches to a new album due for release next month. His yet to be titled album carries 11 tracks. It succeeds Thula Sana recorded in 2016. Marabini whose real name is Majahawodwa Ndlovu said this year was a departure…
HARARE – Journalist and author Shepherd Mutamba who wrote the book Tuku Backstage, Oliver Mtukudzi’s tell-all biography, first published in 2015, has written a second edition to be published in Zimbabwe on Monday next week. The new book, printed on gloss paper, is full colour throughout with 188 pictures, nearly all of them unseen before….
HARARE – The majority of musicians who had carved their careers through bootlicking former president Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF regime are facing a bleak as their compositions are now considered “politically incorrect” by the new government. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has also dealt them a blow as he is on record saying he does…
