SOUTH Africa-based Plumtree music promoter Polite Nkomo wants to revive Solomon Skuza's legacy.As such, his stable is looking into how best they can come up with a commemoration of the late music hero, known by many as Jah Solo.Skuza was behind the Banolila hit that is still being popularised to the younger generation by Iyasa.He was a liberation war fighter who was regarded in equal measure with

UPCOMING Afro-pop musician, Ndori Malonza , is set to release his debut 13-track album titled First Time in which he dedicated the closing song to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Malonza told NewsDay Life & Style that the song - Mnangagwa - was inspired by his belief that the Zanu-PF leader was bent to return Zimbabwe to normalcy following years of political repression and economic recession."The

ZIMBABWE's biggest comedian Carl Joshua Ncube, who was recently profiled by CNN through its African Voices programme, will have his interview featured on the news channel this weekend.The CNN crew was in Zimbabwe during the Harare International Festival of the Arts last month and shadowed Ncube who was organising a comedy festival there.The first episode was screened yesterday with six repeats ove

COMEDIAN Carl Joshua Ncube has alleged that there is an eight-member "mafia" which is killing Bulawayo art by oppressing artistes from the city.Ncube sensationally made the claims on social media saying the gang also does not want artistes from other towns to come to Bulawayo for shows.He said this during a Facebook Live discussion initiated by Iyasa director Nkululeko Dube to find out what is wro

ORGANISERS of the annual DreamStar Zimbabwe Talent Show, the Chinese Federation of Zimbabwe (CFZ) and its partners, will tomorrow take the auditions for the competition to the Zimbabwe Academy of Music in Bulawayo.In an interview with Southern Eye Life & Style, DreamStar Zimbabwe spokesperson, Tinashe Kitchen said those chosen at the auditions, which commenced on April 28 in the capital, will

Sungura ace, Alick Macheso is set to unveil his new offering Dzinosvitsva Kure through an album launch at Chitungwiza on Friday but piracy hawks in Masvingo have already pounced with vendors already selling pirated discs.A survey by Chronicle Showbiz yesterday revealed that the pirated discs were selling like hot cakes as the original ones that had been distributed by Zimpapers vendors early yeste

SUNGURA enthusiasts, who had been starved of new stuff for two years by sungura kingpin Alick Macheso, yesterday had something to cheer about, as the singer finally unveiled his much-awaited six-track album, Dzinosvitsa Kure, two days before its official launch, scheduled for tomorrow at Aquatic Complex in Chitungwiza.Macheso's publicist, Tich Makahamadze yesterday told NewsDay Life & Style th

Austria based Zimbabwean trio Insingizi will perform at a Music For Mandela concerts with Minnesota Ochestra, 3-mob reported.10 concerts will pay tribute to the great South African statesman Nelson Mandela on the 100th anniversary of his birth from July 13 to August 1. The festival also will serve as a curtain-raiser for Minnesota Orchestra's pioneering tour of South Africa in August."African musi

ALICK Macheso's new album - Dzinosvitsa Kure - hits the streets today ahead of the massive album launch set for Aquatic Complex this Friday.The album carries six tracks namely Chikuru Kurarama, Pfuma Yacho, Ndakakutadzirei, Kudzwai, Madzitete and Vane Zvavanoda.Borrowing lines from one of his hit songs, Charakupa, Macheso said he has played his part and it is now left to the fans to consume.While

DANCEHALL star Winky D was on Saturday rushed to hospital after pepper spray was fired during his performance at the OK Grand Challenge.The chanter appeared on stage much to the pleasure of many leading to pushing and shoving that it became difficult for the security to contain the crowd resulting in the barricades falling.A security guard resorted to firing the pepper spray as part of crowd contr

"Handei mberi tipe vanhu kudya kwenzeveIsu hazvisi zvedu, isu chedu hubvonga cheteKana tabvonga togadzika vanodya vodyaKushata kana nhapitapi vachadudzira ivo"This stanza from Alick Macheso's 2003 song "Charakupa" off the album "Zvido Zvenyu Kunyaya" is a deep introspection from a musician who knows that it is not a singer, but fans who make hits.In the lines, he encourages his companions to keep

SUNGURA maestro Alick Macheso missed the OK Grand Challenge horseracing event held at Borrowdale Racecourse over the weekend allegedly over a poster in which he appeared to curtain raise for artistes twice his juniors.The no show followed outrage on social media in which fans raised the red flag that OK Grand Challenge had blundered.On the poster, Jah Prayzah, Winky D and Killer T had been given m

Bulawayo movie enthusiasts will, at least for now, have to wait a bit longer before they can watch war bio-pic Chinhoyi 7, which premiered at Ster Kinekor Borrowdale in Harare last week.The producers of the two-hour long film, which chronicles the 1966 Chinhoyi Battle had said after the premiere in Harare, the movie would be shown in cinemas across the country.In an interview with NewsDay Life &am

"I COULD be well moved if I were as you…But I am as constant as the northern star," those were Julius Caesar's words.The very same is coming out of sungura doyen Alick Macheso's mouth as he speaks of his soon-to-be released album, "Dzinosvitsa Kure". Time and again, Macheso has demonstrated artistry with his guitar playing skills.His compositions fit in the category of the finest. Yet he continu

The imprint of a politician cum comedian has started to be felt in the music industry with Joseph Chinotimba and his musical outfit, the Bulawayo Logistics Band staging popular performances at his political rallies in Buhera South.Chinotimba, who was recently endorsed as the Ambassador of Happiness, kept thousands of ruling party supporters on their toes as he performed at the launch of the party