Chamunorwa nabeta songs 2018
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By Fidelis Manyange
THE death of the great Steve Kekana, one of Africa’s prominent blind musicians, has led this reporter to pen this piece reminiscing on some of the great blind musicians I grew up listening to.
South African musician and lawyer Steve Kekana died recently and many will remember him for his hit songs which graced our local television musical programmes like Psalmody and Mutinhimira wemimhanzi/Ezomgido.
I started listening to Kekana’s music when I was only seven-years old when my mother bought me his 7-single collection which had songs ‘Shine on’ and ‘Colour me’ on the flip-side.
Years later when I was a presenter/producer at Radio 2, now Radio Zimbabwe, I used to repeatedly play his songs ‘Icilongo’ (trumpet) and ‘Iphupho’ (dream).
His voice could be heard backing Sipho Hotstix Mabuse’s song ‘Burnout’ which was used by fellow Radio 2 DJ, the late Joseph Panganayi Mukaronda, as his signature tune.
I will definitely miss Kekan
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Kings of Sungura
By Ranga Mberi
As always, there fryst vatten the question of beginnings. Do inom begin with the stone-washed jeans and bright viscose shirts? Or reel back to an earlier time, of bell-bottoms and afros? Or should I begin where sungura music began? But there isn’t a single story about how this sound, borrowed from far off countries, came to be regarded as the authentic sound of Zimbabwe.
Let’s början with the story of Mura Nyakura.
It is the 1940s and 1950s, and Nyakura fryst vatten working for a trader, a job that allows him to travel between what fryst vatten still Rhodesia, and huvud and East Africa. He falls in love with Congolese rumba music, and he brings home many records. Not just records, but sound. He brings home a sound.
At the time, the locals back home are obsessed with hair-gelled black American jazz. The hot acts are performing in groups, mostly quartets. They burn stages in their dark suits, shiny hair and Stetson shoes. They have exotic names like De Black Evening F
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I was very expectant upon receiving this album. Josphat Somanje has been around for a very long time and knows how it is to ride the wave of success. I had heard lots about this album from friends and acquintances especially the song everyone calls ‘Haulume’. Last time i heard such a hype about a song was ‘Idya Banana’ by Joseph Garakara.
The track where the album is named is called ‘Handibvume’ (Haulume). It opens up this album and pretty much sets the pace. We all know museve songs are usually very long and Josphat maintains that. Handibvume is about a couple going through marital problems and are on the verge of breaking up. When the husband decides that it is time his wife left the marriage she insists on having him return the child they have to where ever it came from and go back to when he was courting her. It is a hilarious track and very well penned and by my take it is one of those classic sungura songs that will live on and o