Sibu Manzini - Kea Leboha Feat. Zola Marcelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZ8J4GR3yQ
Eswatini producer Sibu Manzini just released an EP, which is titled Grace after his mother.
Here with Zimbabwean British vocalist Zola Marcelle.
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Zimbabwe deported FreshlyGround…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/chicken-change-zimbabwe-deported-freshlyground/
In 2010, Freshlyground released their album “Radio Africa”, which contains the song “Chicken to Change”. The music video was also produced in 2010 (!), as a collaboration between the band and ZANEWS, South Africa’s award-winning web and tv satirical puppet news show. 4 years later, booked for a performance at a festival in Harare, the […]
Chiwoniso - Iwai Nesu (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFZCaShc5uU
From album "Ancient Voices"
On AMF: https://amf.didiermary.fr/chiwoniso-rebel-woman/
Killer T - Magunje
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFSXjDj-urw
Hallelujah Chicken Run Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hallelujah-chicken-run-band/
Hallelujah Chicken Run Band was a Zimbabwean band formed in Mhangura, then-Rhodesia in the 1970s. The band was an early pioneer of a style of music called chimurenga.
In 1972, the country of Rhodesia – as Zimbabwe was then known – was in the middle of a long-simmering struggle for independence from British colonial rule. […]
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Mokoomba – Njoka (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mokoomba-njoka/
With their first album “Rising Tide”, produced by the Ivorian Bass virtuoso Manou Gallo and released in 2012, Mokoomba became a touring sensation, playing in many so-called WorldMusic Festivals.
Mokoomba is a Zimbabwean musical group, originally from Chinotimba township, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The group sings in a number of languages including English, Luvale, Tonga, Nyanja, […]
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Bhundu Boys – Jit Jive
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bhundu-boys-jit-jive/
The Bhundu Boys were a Zimbabwean band, founded in April 1980 by Rise Kagona et Biggie Tembo, that played a mixture of chimurenga music with American rock and roll, disco, country, and pop influences. Their style became known as jit (also known as jiti, jit-jive and the Harare beat).
The Zimbabwean group first flew into […]
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RIP Mbuya Stella Chiweshe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-mbuya-stella-chiweshe/
Veteran award-winning musician and Mbira artist Mbuya Stella Chiweshe, the “Queen of Mbira” died in January 2023.She was internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument in Zimbabwe, that she learned to play between 1966 to 1969, when fewer females played this instrument.
“I am a rebel,” […]
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Bantu Spaceship
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bantu-spaceship/
Bantu Spaceship will have listeners embark on a journey. A journey that feels like you are being taken through a portal into another time, Afrofuturism.
Joshua Madalitso Chiundiza, the craftsman behind sound production, is no stranger to providing out-of-this-world audio scenes, while Ulenni Okandlovu serves as the voice guiding us by way of Ndebele chants, […]
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Can’t You Hear Me? (70’s African Nuggets & Garage Rock From Nigeria, Zambia And Zimbabwe) is a compilation released in 2016 as a 2 LP vinyl.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cant-you-hear-me/
#70smusic #Compilation #Nigeria #Psychedelic #Zambia #Zimbabwe #OldAfricanMusic
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Ephat Mujuru & the Spirit of the People
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ephat-mujuru-spirit-people-mbavaira/
In 1972, Ephat Mujuru formed his first group, naming it for one of the most beloved Shona ancestors, Chaminuka. In the midst of the liberation struggle, mbira music became political. Singer and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo began interpreting mbira songs with an electric dance band, creating chimurenga (loosely “struggle”) music, named for the independence [...]
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Punk in Africa (documentary)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/documentary-punk-africa-2012/
Punk in Africa is a 2012 multilingual African historical punk music film. “Three chords, three countries, one revolution… The documentary is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.”
In these societies, [...]
#Documentary #Mozambique #Punk #Ska #SouthAfrica #Zimbabwe #Global
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Dorothy Masuka – Nhingirikiri / Khawuleza
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dorothy-masuka-nhingirikiri/
Dorothy Masuka, South African/Zimbabwean veteran jazz singer, performing at a memorial service in honour of jazz maestro Hugh Masekela.
Born 3 September 1935, in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), she died 23 February 2019, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Slam or Riot!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/slam-riot-comrade-fatso/
Samm Farai Monro aka Comrade Fatso, live at HIFA 2009 in Harare. He’s a popular protest poet, one of the leading Zimbabwean spoken word artists, as well as a leading political activist and grassroots blogger.
Song is “Bread & Roses”, originally recorded with Chiwoniso. […]
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Oliver Mtukudzi – Shanje
https://amf.didiermary.fr/shanje-oliver-mtukudzi/
This post originally proposed a few versions of the song “Shanje”, meaning “Jealousy” if I’m not 100% wrong, but the video disappeared. So went back to Mtukudzi‘s version, from the eponym album in 1981. […]
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Thomas Mapfumo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lion-zimbabwe-thomas-mapfumo/
Thomas Mapfumo was the voice of a revolution, the icon whose music soundtracked the death of Rhodesia and the birth of Zimbabwe.
Thomas Mapfumo (born 1945 in Marondera, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean musician known as “The Lion of Zimbabwe” for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music. Pre-Independence, his […]
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Prince K. Musarurwa – Nyamatsatse
https://amf.didiermary.fr/prince-kudakwashe-musarurwa-nyamatsatse/
RIP Prince K. Musarurwa (December 5, 1988 – February 15, 2020), also known simply as Prince, who was a Zimbabwean African Jazz singer, songwriter and producer. He played the guitar and mbira.
“Nyamatsatse” was released on his last album before his death at 31.
Musarurwa was born and raised in Zimbabwe. His career began within the […]
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Remembering Leonard Dembo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/remembering-leonard-dembo/
Death snatched the legendary artist Leonard Dembo (Leonard Tazvivinga Dembo, also known as Kwangwari Gwaindepi or Musoro We Nyoka), when he was only 37, on April 9, 1996, leaving a rich discography. As Zimbabwean guitarist and member of the band Barura Express, he incorporated traditional Shona sayings in his lyrics. His musical style was sungura-based, […]
Eric Wainaina – Twende Twende!
https://amf.didiermary.fr/eric-wainaina-oliver-mtukudzi-twende-twende/
Twende Twende is the second album by Eric Wainaina, released in 2006. The eponymous song features Oliver Mtukudzi.
Eric Wainaina (born in August 1973) is a Kenyan singer who started mid 90s in a gospel a cappella group.
After attending Berklee College of Music, he released “Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo” [Country of small things] (colloquial for […]
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Chiwoniso – Rebel Woman
https://amf.didiermary.fr/chiwoniso-rebel-woman/
Chiwoniso Maraire (5 March 1976 – 24 July 2013) was a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter, and exponent of mbira music, traditionally used by male musicians.The Mbira Queen is gone so young.
One of Zimbabwe’s most powerful and influential voices, Chiwoniso passed away suddenly in 2013 at the young age of 37. Throughout her short life, Chiwoniso […]
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Djembe Monks – Rainmaker
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djembe-monks-rainmaker/
Djembe Monks is a Zimbabwean afro-house collective. Rainmaker is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional rain-dance ritual performed by the BaKalanga people from Botswana and Western Zimbabwe. Set in the present day and touching on the topical issue of the current global water crisis. [...]
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Dr Footswitch
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dr-footswitch/
Teddy Khuluzwa, better known as Dr Footswitch, was one of the icons of rock in both Zimbabwe and Zambia through the 1970s.
After a carreer in Zimbabwe, known as Southern Rhodesia at the time, Teddy Khuluzwa moved to Zambia.In the ’60s and early ’70s, Khuluzwa played guitar alongside future Zamrock stars such as Rikki Ililonga, […]
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John Chibadura & Tembo Brothers
https://amf.didiermary.fr/john-chibadura-tembo-brothers/
John Chibadura (1957–1999) was a Zimbabwean guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found great success in Zimbabwe and Mozambique with his band The Tembo Brothers and as a solo artist.
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Linos Wengara Magaya – Ndakakutaurira
https://amf.didiermary.fr/linos-wengara-magaya-ndakakutaurira/
Linos Wengara Magaya is a UK-based Zimbabwean musician and bandleader. His band, Zimbaremabwe, covers a variety of styles, but specializes in the chimurenga style of electric mbira music pioneered by Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited.
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