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Berita Teams Up With The Talented Amanda Black For Siyathandana

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Berita Teams Up With The Talented Amanda Black For Siyathandana

The anticipation for Songs in The Key of Love, Berita’s 4th studio album, has reached fever pitch and today she teased fans with her first collaborative effort from the album featuring Amanda Black.

 

The soul sisters whose careers both started in East London and where they were neighbours for many years are now giving their fans what they’ve been asking for.

A work of heart, “Siyathandana,” is a song about love that weathers the changing season that defines the passage of time.

It’s the last song on the 13-track Songs in The Key of Love which is due for worldwide release at the end of the month of love, this coming Friday the 28th of February.

She released Jikizinto on Valentine’s Day and has now completed her most successful release week on streaming platforms YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, and Simfy Africa.

Her album pre-order is the top-charting pre-release on the South African iTunes chart.

This week her single peaked at #11 on the South Africa RAMS (Radio Audience Measurement) chart with 22-million impressions between the 14th and the 20th of this month.

If her singles are anything to go by then “SITKOL” promises to be one of the hottest albums of 2020.

She recently released the album tracklist and revealed her co-collaborators on the project for the first time recently and now that we have had a taste of what’s to come with Siyathandana featuring Amanda Black, we now can’t wait to hear her joining voices with Micasa trumpeter Mo-T and her fellow Bulawayo native Bekezela whose self-titled single is still a hit in the new decade.

One thing Berita’s peers have come to respect is the businesswoman’s phenomenal work ethic and professionalism.

The Assali Music boss keeps a very busy schedule and it’s surprising to hear, through her music, that she has the time to live life, find love and still put into song what we mere mortals struggle to put in words.

You can tell by the amount of work she put into promoting her album that it’s a passion project and that she has put her whole heart into it.

Treat your first like your last, the saying goes and judging by the buzz created by her Assali Music team, she’s taken to label ownership like an old hand.

A woman is at the wheel and the results are already starting to show and the countdown to the album begins now.

Her fans around the world have taken social media to express their impatience and by the sounds of things, it’ll be worth in the end.

Hip-Hop Dominates 2020 Star FM Music Awards

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Hip-Hop Dominates 2020 Star FM Music Awards

Hip-hop’s streaming dominance was amplified at the previously held 2020 Star FM Music Awards.

 

The genre was the toast of the party in 2019 and looks set to continue even beyond 2020.

Hip Hop bagged The Best Male Artist Award which went to Ti Gonz, The Best Newcomer award Ishan featuring Ti Gonz for Kure, The Best Hip-hop Song Award  Takura for Noise,

The Best Collaboration award was won by Kure, Ishan featuring Ti Gonz, The Album of the Year award was taken by King 98 for Francesca, which he named after his mother, whilst the Most played song on Star FM and the Song of the Year award was Kure by Ishan featuring Ti Gonz.

Fun Facts

Zim Hip Hop Awards Best Male – Ti Gonzi

Star FM Music Awards Best Male – Ti Gonzi

Zim Hip Hop Awards Best Album – King 98 – Francesca

Star FM Music Awards Best Album – King 98 – Francesca

Zim Hip Hop Awards Song of the Year – Kure by Ishan featuring Ti Gonz

Star FM Music Awards Song of the Year – Kure by Ishan featuring Ti Gonz

Meanwhile, Dancehall sensation Nutty O won Best Dancehall song for Vroom, Nutty O also gave an energetic opening act, even with the limitations of a small stage he used his experience gained over a period of consistent performances to entertain the crowd.

Nutty O beat Seh Calaz and Mambo whose song Reurura was the Number one on the 2019 Zimdancehall charts.

“We are going to the Grammy’s that’s the Journey, we begin here,” said Nutty O as he accepted his award.

Big winners Ishan and Ti Gonzi gave a big second act performance. The two just looked great together. It was like listening and watching them re-creating the magic that is Kure.

Another great performance came courtesy of gospel break out artist Jonah Chivasa who despite his performance coming after he just lost the Best Gospel award to Janet Manyowa,he summoned the praise in him to belt out the best out of his collabo Ndozvinoita Nyasha with Chelsea.

It was another Janet Manyowa dominance once again as she scooped the Best Gospel Song for Ndimi as well as Best Female.

She won the same Awards in the same competition in 2019.

There were murmurs in the crowd as well as social media outcry as favourite Tamy lost out again in as many awards.

The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Alick Macheso.

Here is the complete list of the Star FM Music Awards 2020 Winners

The Best African Pop Song Award Ishan Featuring Ti Gonz – Kure

The Best Zimdancehall Song Award Nutty O – Vroom

The Best Hip-hop Song Award Takura – Noise

The Best RnB Song Award Hilzy, Gary Mapanzure – TV Room

The Best House Song Award DJ Stavo Featuring Gemma – Bad News

The Best Song by Zimbabwean in the Diaspora Award Norman Masamba – Chihera

The Best Gospel Song award Janet Manyowa – Ndimi

The Best Newcomer award Ishan featuring Ti Gonz – Kure

The Best Female Artist award Janet Manyowa

The Best Male Artist Award Ti Gonz

The Best Duo/Group Award Ngoma Ingoma – Malobolo

The Best Collaboration award Ishan featuring T Gonz – Kure

The Best Producer award Simplex

The Album of the Year award King 98 – Francesca

Lifetime Achievement – Alick Macheso

Most played on Star FM – Ishan featuring T Gonz – Kure

People’s Choice – Ngaibake – Freeman ft Alick Macheso

The Song of the Year award Ishan featuring Ti Gonz – Kure

Star FM Music Awards Moves to smaller Venue, gives update on Winners

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Star FM Music Awards Moves to smaller Venue, gives update on Winners

Organisers of the second edition of the 2020 Star FM Music Awards have announced that the awards will now be held at Jays Steak House on the same date of the 22nd Of February 2020.

 

Initially, the Awards were supposed to be held at Manna Resorts in Glen Lorne, Harare.

“We have converted the awards ceremony into a live radio event that will also be streamed live on our social media platforms,” Comfort Mbofana from the Zimpapers Radio Broadcasting Division said.

“We have followers on Star FM social media platforms that number over 350 thousand people and in the interests of ‘taking the awards to the people’ we have decided to utilise these platforms and also our considerable (terrestrial and digital radio) reach,” he said.

Jay’s Steak House is situated in Harare’s Avondale suburb.

The live radio event/awards are scheduled to go on air at 630pm and will have attendees by invitation-only.

Meanwhile, the second level of adjudication for the Awards has now been completed.

“We provide assurance that the tallies were reasonably accurate. The process was free from any bias or influence from external parties,” said Philemon Mangena CA a registered auditor with Cardinal Chartered Accounting.

There was a total of 1321 entries for this year’s awards in the different categories and the winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony this Saturday

NAMA Now open to the Public for the first time in 5 years

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NAMA Now open to the Public for the first time in 5 years

The 19th National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) to be held at the Harare International Conference Centre on February 29 will be open to the public for the first time in over 5 years.

 

The ceremony has been running on an invite-only basis and the new team running the Awards have changed that system.

Ordinary tickets have been pegged at RTGS $200 and VIP tickets costRTGS $500. For more information and bookings, members of the public are advised to visit www.clickandpay.africa or any MyCash kiosk countrywide.

The awards will feature amazing pre-show and main show performances from some of Zimbabwe’s biggest artists including Gemma Griffiths, Freeman, Alick Macheso, TiGonzi, Asaph, Vabati VaJehovha, Jah Prayzah, resident band Those Guys Vacho and many more.

NAMA 2020 People’s Choice Award Voting Platform Revealed

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NAMA 2020 People’s Choice Award Voting Platform Revealed

The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe has launched the 19th National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) People’s Choice Award voting platform for 2020.

 

To vote for one’s favourite artist for this year’s People’s Choice Award one has to send the artist’s name to WhatsApp number +263 718 775 775.

Members of the public are therefore encouraged to nominate their favourite artist for recognition.

The initial voting period runs from now until the 24th of February when the top five nominees will be announced.

Following this period, the public will once again have the opportunity to vote for the ultimate winner from the five nominees, from 25 Feb to 28 February 2020.

The People’s Choice Award is given to an individual/institution that would have received the most votes from members of the public.

The public is at liberty to select an artist of their choice from the NAMA categories of Music, Literary Arts, Dance, Visual Arts, Film and Television, Theatre and Spoken Word.

Draze in New Musical Collaboration with Owuor Arunga

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Draze in New Musical Collaboration with Owuor Arunga

Following recent success with Hollywood placements of his music, Draze is back with a new single, Building Black Wealth.

 

Draze who is based in Los Angeles is the son of legendary mbira performer Dumisani Maraire and the little brother of Chiwoniso.

Set to the acoustic sounds of human beatbox, Building Black Wealth features Draze playing traditional Zimbabwean mbira accompanied by Owuor Arunga on trumpet.

Through a story-telling style, Draze brings listeners into his personal journey towards supporting economic development of Black communities.

Draze poetically spotlights 18 Black-owned businesses to illustrate the breadth
and depth of African-American ingenuity and entrepreneurship.

The result is a soulful, tribal hip hop
anthem inspiring listeners to be intentional in supporting the development of black wealth.

For Draze, music has always been a platform for social commentary and activism. A stronger Black community makes for a stronger America.

The song and the movement Building Black Wealth are inclusive, inviting people of all races and cultures to join in this important work.

Building Black Wealth is the first release from Draze’s upcoming album “African American” set to release in early March 2020.

Draze is a songwriter, producer, emcee, and musician. Propelled to global recognition with featured music in TV shows, advertisements, and film.

His placements include: The Masked Singer, The Last OG on Netflix, HBO Ballers, Empire on Fox, Love and Hip Hop on VH1 amongst others.

Watch Building Black Wealth

Noble Stylz — The BEST freestyle Rapper you’ll ever see!

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Noble Stylz — The BEST freestyle Rapper you’ll ever see!

For hip-hop heads that have followed the rap culture from the gutter, we all bear witness that freestyle videos have been an unavoidable part of the culture.

 

With the advent of the internet ushering in channels like Zimcelebs TV and national radio stations with rap-centered slots like the Fixx on ZIFM and StarFM’s TXO, performing freestyle on air has become a rite of passage for young rappers, and an outlet for legends to flex their muscles.

Last Friday, February 14. 2020, The day was supposed to go down in history as a day where we all celebrate our love for one another because per mundane standards, it was Valentine’s Day.

Little did we know that we even had better things coming on the day in the world of music.

Hip-hop rapper Noble Stylz made a monstrous appearance on Zimceleb TV’s Ndipe Mic-Nginikez Mic Reloaded Episode 5 and professed his love for the battle rap.

He dropped the best freestyle We’ve ever heard. We’ve been trying, since Friday, very hard to qualify that statement To find a reason not to give something We had just heard the best ever distinction. We thought about some titillating and hilarious freestyles we’ve been hearing in recent years, some that got us to sing out Hossana, Hallelujah to the Most High.

But finding a way not to call the Masofa Panze head honcho’s Valentine freestyle the best would be a self-conscious attempt at some sort of performative critical sobriety.

On this, the Prince of Puns went in for three minutes in one take with like three breathing breaks over an equally monstrous sound beam layered by Quazor.

In those three minutes, Noble weaves so many different literary devices in his verses that we lost count. Its analogues and allegories.

Alliteration and assonance. Metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, humour, sarcasm, satire and drama compatibly put out with an opponent in mind.

With each switching break, he dramatically looks both left, right and back as if to check if there was any challenge in the vicinity, and before you could let the previous verse simmer, he will resume constructing other complex rhyme schemes on top of one another, sometimes even switching cadence and breath pattern to articulate and distinguish multiple rhyme structures within the same line.

He cited Osama Bin Ladin, Chaminuka, and 50 Cent. Mr. Bin and Trace Magazine and Charlie Chaplin. King Pinn.

It’s witty and powerful and inspirational. And it banged.

For someone who has followed the rapper for a minute now, it was an unambiguous articulation of the beautiful mind Noble Stlyz possesses: a brain with enough power not only to construct such a tour de force, but to memorize it (at the inception of the freestyle he said the freestyle was a recollection of some of his classical verse from God-knows-when).

The point of this exercise was not simply to establish that Noble Stylz is one of the greats in the pantheon of hip-hop lyricism.

He earned that claim years ago and to this is still improving his skills. In the combative, Darwinian world of hip-hop, a place where one’s status as an exemplar of the form is as ephemeral as the Sexiest Man Alive title, this is no small accomplishment.

The densely arrayed metaphors, the calibrated poise, and casual displays of erudition all point to an artist who remains thoroughly in control of his gifts.

His performance was expectedly amazing and if you haven’t checked the freestyle yet, go do that. Now.

Watch it Below

20 year old ILLUMINATES Crowned Bata Mic Rap Battle Champion

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20 year old ILLUMINATES Crowned Bata Mic Rap Battle Champion

The best freestyle battlers in the country Saturday squared off in The Dome at Moto Republik for the inaugural Bata Mic Rap Battles.

 

Battling has gone from a niche interest to an important part of hip-hop culture and scores gathered to witness the certification of a word master.

USD100 was on the line and so were the bragging rights.

Amongst some of the attendees were music producers, singers, rappers and fans alike.

In between the battles were cyphers with performances from Flexo, ProBeatz, Soko Matemai, Tulk Money and many others.

One of the organisers Munya Bloggo explained how the idea was birthed.

“Bezaleel Mhako and l decided to do this as a way of ensuring that we have a diverse set of events where artists can showcase their talent. I pledged 100 USD every month for the rest of the year for battle mics. Moto Republik donated the sound system and venue,” he said.

“Noble Stylz suggested the name. And the guys in The Hub WhatsApp group pushed to make it happen. DJ Krimz volunteered to be the DJ. Noble was nominated to be the MC and people pledged their skills EPKs, Beats, Apparel and studio time.”

After a long and gruesome battle, it was 20-year-old Dalitso Ndlovu going by the name Illuminates who emerged champion.

He faced stiff competition in the finals from Dough Major real name Tatenda Maguta who looked like he was running away with the crown until he was pipped in the final round.

For Illuminates, it was more of an experiment more than it was experience. He says he is not a natural rapper but is a gifted poet.

“I work for an NGO and I’m in a department that promotes creativity and mental health, in terms of the creative aspect I’m more of a philosophical poetic vibe so I thought i should try rap since they are all part of the culture,” he told Zimbuzz.

“My winning the battle means that art is something that can be cross-pollinated between people.

“A lot of rappers think poetry is too bourgie, a lot of poets think rap is too ghetto and too street, but I’m here to show that we can bridge a gap between these two extremes and create something for the love of art,” he added

Munya Bloggo said they expected to do this every month for the rest of the year and the next battle prize is already up to 120 USD and they expected more people to come on board.

“The next battle is on 21 March and you can expect DJ Fafi and Kikky Badass to be front and centre,” he told Zimbuzz.

“I think the initial event was a dry run. Testing out the format. Seeing the appetite of the audience and seeing what works. You can expect a lot of content to come out and 10 more editions.

“Rap Battles will become a league. We are engaging sponsors and we are grateful for the stakeholders that came on board. The next event will definitely feature a combination of Zim HipHop icons, more visual elements, and a more polished presentation.

“Our goal is to get artists paid. To get them booked for shows and to give them a platform to sharpen their skills.”

Pusha Maworks Community Edition Workshop A Success

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Pusha Maworks Community Edition Workshop A Success

Organisers of The Pusha Maworks beading workshop which took place last Monday in Hatcliff in association with Beady Africa and Silas Nyamhandu have described the event a resounding success.

 

This effort is in line with the Pusha Maworks flagship brand dubbed The Community Edition where the organisation seeks to create numerous platforms across Zimbabwe and Southern Africa where skills can be shared and/or transferred between selected individuals excelling at vocational skills-based businesses and members of the communities.

The event kicked off at 10 am with attendants taking time to introduce themselves before the Pusha Maworks team of Diana Elisha Nheera and Byron Kabaira led a conversation on general business principles and what it takes to actually build an income-generating project straight from the communities and plugging into different markets and avenues of business.

The workshop had an emphasis on learning beading and building a business out of it as a way to improve life.

At midday, Silas Nyamhandu took over the floor taking time to tell his story with beading.

He spoke of starting beading as a hobby before he learnt that he could earn decently out of it. Silas spoke of the need for resilience as it took him approximately 10 years before he could see the true light in the beading business.

After having a motivational talk with the attending men and women from Harare’s Hatcliffe Extension residential area the facilitator went into practical demonstration teaching some basics of making various beading creations like earrings, wrist pieces, neckpieces, and accessories like key holders.

Mr. Nyamhandu, a man who has also built a business out of conducting beading trainings was unmistakable genius as his dissemination prowess soon manifested in various attendees taking turns to create a few bead pieces according to what they had grasped the most. A successful workshop it was.

In attendance was also Rudo Orpah who is one of the future facilitators in the Pusha Maworks Community Edition workshops.

She runs a business in making ladies wear, linen and a few unisex garments out of fabric off cuts.

The owner of the venue at Busy Corner, Mr. Boisen Tichadini, applauded the workshop adding that it was such efforts that could emancipate a lot of young people in the communities as many lacked income-generating power which, if not resolved, would result in adverse behavior disrupting community peace.

The facilitator continuously applauded the initiative and took time to urge the attending members to take this opportunity seriously for it had the power to change their lives in so many ways.

Plans are in place to make sure that another workshop is conducted with a more practical approach so as to allow those interested in pursuing beading as a business to commence immediately after the tutorials.

The event was sponsored by Ziminvoice, Diana Elisha Digital, Beady Africa and Pusha Maworks

Breaking News: Prince Musarurwa has died

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Breaking News: Prince Musarurwa has died

Musician Prince Kudakwashe Musarurwa (31) has died, Zimbuzz can confirm.

 

Musarurwa who rose to prominence with his 2013 hit single Runonzi Rudo which he performed with his niece Pah Chihera, died at Chinhoyi Hospital.

He had been battling cancer. Mourners are gathered at number 6930 Kuwadzana 5 in Harare. Burial arrangements are scheduled for Tuesday in Zvimba.

Watch Pah Chihera ft Prince K Musarurwa – Runonzi Rudo

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