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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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.
Killer T - Magunje
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFSXjDj-urw
Thomas Mapfumo – Marudzi Nemarudzi
https://amf.didiermary.fr/thomas-mapfumo-marudzi-nemarudzi/
Thomas Mapfumo was the voice of a revolution, the icon whose music soundtracked the death of Rhodesia and the birth of Zimbabwe.
But, by the time he recorded Rise Up in 2006, the tables were turned, the optimism extinguished. The Zimbabwean authorities now hounded Mapfumo, who quietly slipped out of the country to live in […]
Edited 21d ago
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.
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Roots Rocking Zimbabwe – The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980
https://amf.didiermary.fr/roots-rocking-zimbabwe/
In the early 1970s, the townships of the Rhodesian capital, Salisbury (which would become Harare upon Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980), were buzzing with new sounds from diverse backgrounds. Bands began to fuse Anglo-Saxon rock, Congolese rumba, South African Mbaqanga, Soul, and traditional rhythms, [...]
Edited 13d ago
New Tutenkhamen – Forever together
https://amf.didiermary.fr/new-tutenkhamen-forever-together/
New Tutenkhamen, a 1970’s band from Harare, Zimbabwe, played an eclectic brand of Zimbabwean township music combining traditional rhythms and western influences.The album “I wish you were mine” was originally published in 1979, during the liberation war.
The band’s most famous release, “Itai Cent Cent” was a sad lament of the poverty afflicting black people [...]
Edited 13d ago
Teddy Khuluzwa, better known as Dr Footswitch, was one of the icons of rock in both Zimbabwe and Zambia through the 1970s.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dr-footswitch/
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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Dancers in Zimbabwe with Dembo remix
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dancers-zimbabwe-remix-leonard-dembo/
A remixed version of a classic track by the late Zimbabwean guitarist Leonard Dembo, with dancers in Zimbabwe expressing themselves in the streets.
Original version
The song is “Funga Zuva Rimwe Pagore” by Leonard Dembo & The Barura Express, on their 1991 album “Tinokumbira Kurarama.” […]
Edited 8d ago