HARARE – Award-winning Zimdancehall songbird Lady Squanda has featured in a comedy titled Who Is the Owner? Lady Squanda, who was born Sandra Gazi, featured in the one-hour-20-minute-long comedy by Noel Zikhali where she plays the role of an employee at a car-washing facility. The Sadza Rangu singer and her fellow employees routinely drink beer…
HARARE – Zimdancehall star Shinsoman failed to fulfil his maiden concert in Cyprus after his name was wrongly spelt on his air ticket from Dubai to Cyprus. The Highfield-bred musician, who calls himself the Dancehall Father, was scheduled to perform in Cyprus for Zimbabwean students from various universities in that country who had organised the…
HARARE – Danish International Development Agency (Danida) has facilitated the closing act at this year’s Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) featuring Malian superstar Salif Keita and mbira princess Hope Masike. The aim of this year’s cooperation between Danida and Hifa is to enhance the role of culture as a medium for free expression…
HARARE – His father ignored all the signs of musical potential in Divine Chitubura and believed his son’s love for carpentry would one day at least lead him into a more acceptable career. As a teenager, the 22-year-old’s handiwork had seen him become an entrepreneur who specialises in making beds. But that all changed two…
HARARE – Over the past two weeks, Zambezi News — a three-year-old local comedy series featuring Comrade Fatso, Michael Kudakwashe, Tongai Leslie Makawa and Stacey Danana — has made the news on global television stations like BBC and CNN. The Daily News on Sunday’s Sharon Muguwu caught up with Comrade Fatso to get more insight…
HARARE – When the “Mbira in Schools” Project was launched in August last year, its founder Albert Chimedza hardly imagined that his ambitious initiative would quickly spread its influence to as far as Canada. Montreal-based Ginette Hétu-Bertrand, who briefly lived in Harare soon after independence, has set up an organisation that seeks to promote the…
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi says the xenophobic violence raging in South Africa is travesty on a continent that united to rid itself of the yoke of colonialism. Tuku, who is currently touring North America, hit out at the xenophobic scourge in a statement he released at the weekend. “African turns on African…
HARARE – South African (SA) group Big Nuz has hinted that they could cancel a gig set for Bulawayo tomorrow night amid calls for local music fans to boycott the concert in protest over xenophobic attacks raging across the Limpopo. DJ Tira, the director of Big Nuz’s record label, believes their safety can no longer…
HARARE – Veteran gospel musician Pastor Charles Charamba will share the stage with two other pastors from Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International Church Michel Mahendere and Lawrence Gunda tomorrow at Kingstone House in Harare. The music concert is expected to kick-off at 5:30pm and end at 9:30pm. As usual Charamba will be accompanied by…
HARARE – Chimurenga music guru Thomas Mapfumo has lambasted Zimbabwe’s leaders for chasing after personal luxuries and foreign travel while ordinary citizens are not enjoying the basics. In his Independence Day message, Mukanya as he is affectionately known said government should listen to the people’s grievances instead of turning a blind eye on the social,…
