Zimbabwe News News Zimbabwe » Music: Zimbabwe and world music star Oliver Mtukudzi dies at 66
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Thursday June 30, 2011 file photo, Zimbabwe music superstar, Oliver Mutukudzi plays in his music academy in Norton ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: Zimbabwe’s Powerful Music of Struggle
In April of 1980, when Bob Marley arrived to headline the independence celebrations that would see Rhodesia become Zimbabwe, his song “Zimbabwe,” the centerpiece of the “Survival” album, was the most ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: Zimbabwe Keeps Protest Music Muffled
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe -- The crowd at the Large City Hall here had become a sweaty, tipsy, swaying throng by the time Oliver Mtukudzi played his most controversial song, "Wasakara." As he sang in his ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: Zimbabwe Nkenya
A “staple of the New Mexico jazz scene” (Pasatiempo) Zimbabwe Nkenya has dedicated his life to music. A self-taught musical scholar, this St. Louis native started as a youth with the cello, but now ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: Zimbabwean music star Mtukudzi declared a national hero
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Thursday June 30, 2011 file photo, Zimbabwe music superstar, Oliver Mutukudzi plays in his music academy in Norton ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: 'No corruption on this land beats Zimura's!' - Musicians demand reforms at music rights body
Musicians have called on the government to intervene at the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (ZIMURA), accusing the organisation's management of corruption, non-payment of royalties and unfair ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: Music legend Oliver Mtukudzi is given national hero status in Zimbabwe
Mtukudzi was one the country’s most celebrated musicians and the Zimbabwe arts regulating body wrote to the President to seek the status for him. “He deserves the status because of his hard work and ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: Liberation Music: South Africa, Zimbabwe & Zambia
Protest music has a long and honourable tradition in southern Africa. In the colonial era, it began at least as long ago as 1897, when the South African songwriter Enoch Sontonga wrote his classic ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: Thomas Mapfumo, 'Lion Of Zimbabwe,' Returns From Exile With Triumphant Homecoming
In Harare, Zimbabwe, on Saturday, April 28, it happened. "I thought maybe I wasn't going to be able to come back here while I was still alive," mused Mapfumo the day before the big show. "But by the ...
News Zimbabwe » Music: Zimbabwe and world music star Oliver Mtukudzi dies at 66
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — One of Zimbabwe and Africa’s most iconic musicians, Oliver Mtukudzi, died on Wednesday at age 66 after decades of rollicking, captivating performances won him devoted fans ...