Month: February 2015

Mathias Mhere Mathias Mhere’s fourth album arrived last month amid a flare of controversy. Whether speculation over Mhere’s personal problems has attracted, diverted or distorted emphasis with respect to the album, it is difficult to tell. It is equally difficult to explain the popular appetite for the sensational at the expense of the substantial. But… …

Leonard Zhakata The power of music suspends every faculty and revolves the world around the object of affection. Musicians are power brokers – a fact universally acknowledged by corporates, politicians, suitors and others – hence their tag-along function in just about anything that takes influence to effect. Regrettably, when most musicians ditch the stage for… …

Pastor G Urban contemporary gospel thoroughbred Pastor G’s stellar offering “Unstoppable Rhythm, Worship and Praise” is a fitting milestone for his fifteen years in the fraternity. The fourteen-track album, which is replete with mellow jams and powerful biblical messages, is a throwback to the early hits which endeared Pastor G with gospel music lovers. Most… …

Charles and Olivia Charamba Zimdancehall has upstaged other genres to become the household phenomenon of the moment. While traditional genres are struggling for survival, dancehall is flinging its mojo into previously closed spaces. Ghetto chanters are staking their claim to the showbiz presidium, and the nation is reverberating along. It is the reinvention of culture… …

Leonard Zhakata (Photo Credit: The Herald) Zora maestro Leonard Zhakata’s latest offering indicates a transition from liberation theology to prosperity gospel. Zora maestro Leonard Zhakata’s latest offering indicates a transition from liberation theology to prosperity gospel. A closer listen to two of Zhakata’s most popular tracks Mugove and Dhonza Makomborero point to this theological somersault.… …