HARARE – Rising songstress Cynthia Mare appears to have shrugged off the controversy that dogged the three awards she won at Last October’s Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima). Mare turned up at the Zima ceremony very much an underdog but by the end of the night she had picked up three gongs in the Best Alternative…
HARARE – Zora star Leonard Zhakata’s songs Dhonza Makomborero and Dollar Boy respectively claimed first and second position in this year’s Coca-Cola Radio Zimbabwe Top 50. The two winning songs are from Zhakata’s latest seven-track album Zvangu Zvaita. The Zora singer, who last dominated music charts in similar fashion in the mid-1994 when he released…
BULAWAYO – Dendera star Suluman Chimbetu officially unveiled his latest album “Gunship” at Club Forty Forty in Zimbabwe’s second largest city on Friday night. Though the 10-track album, first launched in the capital end of November, has attracted mixed reactions across the country, Bulawayo fans seemed satisfied with the quality of the new offering judging…
HARARE – Zimbabwean Rnb songstress Cindy Munyavi landed the Best Female Artiste in Southern Africa award at the Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) ceremony held at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos on Saturday night. The Zimbabwean diva beat continental music heavyweights that included Zahara and Lira from South Africa as well former Big Brother Africa (BBA)…
HARARE – Buhera-based Makumbe High school has released a maiden gospel album titled Nomoyo Wose to mark the school’s 100 years in existence. All songs on the seven-track album , which is accompanied by a DVD compilation,were composed by ex- Makumbe High school student Elly Mhungu who co-produced the album with renowned producer Clive Mono…
HARARE – Paddington, the top United Kingdom (UK) movie which premiered in Harare just before Christmas, is a riveting tour through brightly lit London in one and a half hours. It is a view of London in the eyes of a little brown Bear called Paddington, an iconic child literature fictional character touted as the…
HARARE – Miss Heritage organisers are having the last laugh following the successful hosting of the world pageant in South Africa two weeks ago. Miss Heritage is run by Tare Munzara and when it was held last year in Zimbabwe they encountered logistical and financial problems, leaving some on the world contestants stranded in the…
HARARE – Superlabel will tonight host several Zimdancehall artistes who will certainly usher us into 2015. Zimdancehall singers including Freeman, Kinnah, Lady Squanda, Mostaff, Genious and Bobo Fire will invade Superlabel and close the year 2014 in style. Shumba, Sulu to thrill Mutare Mutare-based award winning gospel musician Blessing Shumba is going to share the…
HARARE – Despite being based in far-flung Oregon in the United States of America (USA), Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo can still feel the turmoil being created by Zimbabwe’s political elite. The veteran musician has released a single titled Hatidi Politics which aptly describes Zimbabwe’s political drama the highlights of which have been the purges…
HARARE – Controversial arts promoter/manager Courage Zikhali, whose stint as manager of dancehall chanter Soul Jah Love ended on a sour note, says he will no longer be involved with established artistes. Zikhali,who was forced to annul a contract with Soul Jah Love early last year in which the dancehall artiste was entitled to a…
