HARARE – They say all that is blessed by your parents will reach greatness. So is the story of Myrah Dube, 24 an immensely talented afro-jazz diva whose father bought her first guitar while her mother bought her the first performance dress. Growing up in Masvingo, she relocated to Bulawayo at the age of 11….
HARARE – Rapper Tehn Diamond says he is looking forward to working with fellow artistes he met at the Festa2H hip-hop festival which took place last week in Senegal. The Happy hitmaker said the festival which is the biggest hip-hop festival in Africa was an eye-opener for him. “It was an incredible, well organised and…
HARARE – Sungura kingpin Alick Macheso says he is in no hurry to release a new album. The Tafadzwa singer, whose last offering was the 2012 album Kwatakabva Mitunhu (Kure Kwekure), told the Daily News in an exclusive interview at his Chitungwiza offices that reports that he would drop his long-awaited album this month were…
HARARE – Chimurenga music star Thomas Mapfumo says the illegality of marijuana is an injustice because the ‘weed’ was created by God, according to his just-released biography penned by American ethnomusicologist and guitarist Banning Eyre. In the 362-page biography titled Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the music that made Zimbabwe published by Duke University Press,…
HARARE – Zimbabwean author, life coach and motivational speaker Rabison Shumba will today officially open the Bergen Afro-Arts Festival (BAAF) that will run in the west-coast Norwegian city until Saturday. Shumba, who is the keynote speaker, will present a paper on the Day of the African Child, commemorated annually on the continent. This year’s celebrations…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) has written off royalties that the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (Zbc) should have paid to musicians between 2011 and 2014. Zimura Director Polisile Ncube told the Daily News that the writing off the debt was a result of the consultations between the two parties that also involved the information,…
HARARE – Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo (70) was born Michael Munhumumwe and only started using his current name at the age of nine, a just-released biography of the iconic artiste written by Banning Eyre claims. The chimurenga music legend was born to Janet Chinhamo and Tapfumaneyi Mupariwa on July 2 1945 but was raised…
HARARE – Dancehall chanter Soul Jah Love should shed off the bad boy image he is portraying because it is destroying his promising musical career. The youthful chanter is always in the media for the wrong reasons that include threatening journalists and snubbing or getting to scheduled concerts late. He has also come under fire…
HARARE – Dethroned Miss Zimbabwe Emily Kachote has hit out at the Miss Zimbabwe Trust saying they are not qualified to talk about morals when the pageant’s officials were getting drunk during the contestants’ boot camp. Kachote was dethroned as Miss Zimbabwe title holder last week over her nude pictures which were said to be…
HARARE – Dethroned Miss Zimbabwe, Emily Kachote, said yesterday she will not return her bejewelled crown until pageant organisers tell her what wrong she did. The Marry Chiwenga-led Miss Zimbabwe Trust (MZT) on Wednesday said Kachote, 25, had been dethroned for violating rules and regulations governing the pageant. An emotionally-charged Kachote lashed back at her…
