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 ...

Zimbabwean singer Chiwoniso grew up on a soundtrack of Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and even Mozart. But her father, an ethnomusicologist, made sure that she also knew the songs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music plays an important part in the lives of Zimbabweans. More than 70 years ago, township music started as a symbol of identity and dissent in colonial Africa. Today, the music has grown full circle ...

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 ...

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 ...

Info forwarded from Professor Ric Alviso, CSU Northridge professor and UCLA Ethnomusicology alum. Professor Alviso did his fieldwork in Zimbabwe with the Chigambas, master musicians and dancers, and ...

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 ...

Zimbabwe culture runs from Great Zimbabwe to the mbira and Booker novels. Meet Kirsty Coventry, Tsitsi Dangarembga and the ...