HARARE – Indeed the dead stay dumb! Marshal Munhumumwe, the late Four Brothers leader is long gone and there is no way he can be resurrected to save the once inimitable musical band from its current financial woes. Once a popular band, The Four Brothers band is teetering on the brink of collapse after hitting…
HARARE – Female jazz sensation, Prudence Katomeni-Mbofana, will release videos of her self-titled album before year-end. The soulful diva told the Daily News videos of the album Prudence which was released in 2011 were delayed because of motherhood engagements. “I have been working on videos for the last album because I think I delayed the…
HARARE – Prominent Zimbabwean writers will grace the reading event slated for the Book Café in Harare tomorrow. The reading event is organised by the Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) and is set to bring prominent writers, Vitalis Nyawaranda, Virginia Phiri and Tinashe Muchuri to the capital’s arts hub. Nyawaranda has been writing and publishing variably…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) will finally take place tomorrow at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). The awards, which are making a comeback after a seven-year break, were originally scheduled for October 3, but were postponed at the last moment to tomorrow, the same day the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) Indaba…
HARARE – For the first time in several weeks, none of Zimbabwe’s Big Brother Hotshots housemates, JJ and Butterphly is up for eviction. JJ was up for eviction last week, but was saved by three country votes from Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The fairly unknown Zimbabwean Big Brother representative survived the axe at the…
HARARE – The Sunset Beer Fest was successfully launched on Saturday as thousands of beer drinkers and music lovers converged at the open arena to party until well after mid-night. With bars and braais scattered around the venue, and consumed by the multitude of dancing bodies, the festival launch lived up to its billing. Open…
HARARE – Chipaz Promotions director Partson Chimbodza says he will not be hiring military personnel at his next Zim-dancehall concert set for on November 8 at the City Sports Centre as happened before. Dubbed Sting, the Zim-dancehall concert’s title was inspired the popular Jamaican Sting dubbed as the greatest one night reggae and dancehall show…
HARARE – Songbird Pauline Gundidza says she has found love again and this time she hopes to exorcise for good the ghost of musician Rockford “Roki” Josphats, the father of her two children. The Mafriq lead vocalist, who declined to name her new lover, revealed to the Daily News on Sunday that the enigmatic Chidzoka…
HARARE – The two-day Sunset Arena beer festival spiced with lots of music, braais and beer roars into life in Harare today with Zim-dancehall acts performing from noon until mid-night. Today Tocky Vibes will lead the dancehall pack that includes the likes of Killer T, Sir Calaz, Guspy Warrior, Soul Jah Love, Kinna and Platinum…
HARARE – Jazz sensation Dudu Manhenga says the local arts industry is suffering much more from a deep-seated lack of appreciation by Zimbabweans than from the economic problems the country is going through. Dudu, who has just returned from a tour of Italy, told the Daily News on the sidelines of Musica 2014 currently running…
