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Argentinean seven-piece music group Zimbabwe was shaped in 1994 by ex-Zimbabwe reggae music group percussionist Dario Ungaro and singer/guitarist Marcelo Delgado, following launching a self-titled record in 1987 and Caminando en el Fuego in 1989. The brand new band’s debut record was known as Cuestión de Honor, attaining platinum position …

Thomas Mapfumo made groundbreaking adjustments in Zimbabwe’s pop music picture by saving a song that he’d written his own music. Before Mapfumo, tracks in the original style were constantly based on music that were passed down for decades. Mapfumo’s music, chimurenga (“music of struggle”), became well-known through the civil battle …

Gifted having a deep, gutsy tone of voice along with a talent for composing songs that think about the lifestyle and challenges of individuals of his homeland, Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi is definitely among Zimbabwe’s greatest artists. His mixing of Southern African music customs, including mbira, mbaqanga, jit, and the original …

British isles pianist Graham Johnson has generated a reputation as a respected accompanist through his collaborations using the world’s main vocal artists. Created in Rhodesia, Johnson went to the Royal Academy of Music in London. There he fulfilled accompanist Gerald Moore, whose impact was instrumental to Johnson’s personal profession. After …

The little girl of Zimbabwean artist Dumisani Maraire, singer/mbira player Chiwoniso Maraire specialized within an R&B-drenched design of African pop. However the vocalist, who passed her initial name skillfully, wasn’t actually blessed in Africa. Chiwoniso was created in Olympia, Washington, and resided in the U.S. until adolescence; she was 15 …

The suicide death of Zimbabwean guitarist and singer Biggie Tembo symbolizes among the truly tragic tales in African music. The frontman for the favorite group the Bhundu Guys within the ’80s, he previously experienced since getting voted from the music group in 1990. Although based on Afropop Worldwide, he possessed …

Probably the most commercially and creatively successful act ever to emerge from Zimbabwe, the Bhundu Boys embodied the entire world music zeitgeist from the mid-’80s. Makers of the frenetic, guitar-dominated design they dubbed “jit,” they fused airy melodies, shimmering harmonies, and pulsating rhythms attracted from over the African continent to …

Associated her swooping vocals on mbira, a thumb piano comprising metal strips occur wood, Stella Chiweshe offers taken the original Shona music of Zimbabwe towards the international stage. Chiweshe reached her largest viewers when she became a member of Peruvian vocalist Susana Baca and Tex-Mex singer-guitarist Tish Hinojosa for the …