HARARE – Growing up as a ghetto youth in the 1980s and 1990s, attending disco music showcases was the in-thing, forget the live music bands. Then, we were too young to enter into nightclubs where the likes of star musicians like Thomas Mapfumo, Oliver Mtukudzi or Lovemore Majaivana used to perform, so our disco music…
HARARE – Baltimore “Balt” Mudepu, the other half of the defunct musical duo Balt and Bert, has bounced back with a song titled Patakadana. Balt is confident that his new single will restore the limelight he enjoyed when he broke onto the Zimbabwean music scene 12 years ago. “I am confident that this single will…
HARARE – Zambezi News, one of Zimbabwe’s leading comedy series, will launch Season Two at Rainbow Cinemas City 4 in Bulawayo on Sunday. The main highlight of the launch, which will attract no entry charges, will be the screening of two episodes of Zambezi News Season Two. Season Three featured John Vlismas, Kagiso Lediga and…
HARARE – Rising dancehall singer Soul Jah Love and dendera musician Suluman Chimbetu will share the stage tonight at Dandaro Inn at the Harare Showgrounds. MicInity returns home Reggae star Mike “Mic Inity” Madamombe will make a sentimental return to the Book Café tomorrow night. The Book Café stage provided a fitting stage for the…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo-based hip-hop artiste Titus Marume will launch his debut 13-track album at Ascot Centre in the city on Saturday. The album will be launched during a rappers battle dubbed Kings of Kings Tournament organised by Grapevine Clothing once every month. The 33-year-old Marume, who is better known as MC Tytoh in hip-hop circles,…
HARARE – Controversial actor Spugah Dhibhura has accused acting Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive officer Allan Chiweshe of unprofessionally handling the payments of royalties to commissioned drama groups. The actor, whose real name is Clifford Makonese, told the Daily News that he is owed thousands of dollars in royalties by the State broadcaster. “We…
HARARE – Batsirai Chinyanga, young brother to late Studio 263 actor and musician Nevernay “Muwengwa” Chinyanga, believes his second album set for release in September will bring his family name back in the limelight. The Mbare-based rookie musician, who uses the stage name Young Muwengwa, is determined to reap rewards from the legacy created by…
HARARE – Government is in the process of establishing a national cultural policy and setting up a language council with the mandate to protect the right of creators to their intellectual property, a Cabinet minister has said. In a speech read on his behalf during the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) Indaba in Harare on…
HARARE – Daily News columnist Pamela Samasuwo-Nyawiri has used proceeds from the lucrative Nottingham Trent University Vice-Chancellor’s Award she won recently to set up a fund to assist emerging African fashion and accessory designers. Samasuwo-Nyawiri, who graduated in Fashion Accessory Design on July 25, has created the Generation Africa Fashion Fund which will be spearheaded…
BULAWAYO – This year’s edition of the Dreams To Fame, one of Zimbabwe’s biggest talent search shows, kicks off on Saturday at Amakhosi Cultural Centre in Bulawayo. The event, which is very popular among youngsters in the City of Kings, runs for 20 weeks every year from August to December. Dreams to Fame organisers are…
