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Mugabe's loyalist produces new album, "Mupedzanhamo"
03 Feb 2016 at 00:34hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe's youthful loyalist Energy Mutodi has produced a new album titled 'Mupedzanhamo."
One of Zimbabwe's most talented songwriter Energy 'Musorowembada' Mutodi and his Mutodi Express have once again generously produced yet another album that promises to be a hit as usual.
He posted in his Facebook page that indeed, the country's music history will no longer be complete without mention of Mutodi who since entering the music scene in the year 2010 as a rhumba artist before taking on the popular sungura genre has made an immense contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through singing and writing.
Sungura music is popular among the poor and the middle class particularly the rural folks who constitute 70% of the country's population.
The latest album titled, "Mupedzanhamo", is expected to raise the bar in sungura circles and as usual will force other prominent musicians to revise their works set to be released this year if they are to give Mutodi any meaningful competition.
The album carries 5 tracks namely: Keresi, Vavariro, Uchamutora sei, Ndiri Mufambi and Ndezvavo all engineered by Munyaradzi Viya of Vially Studios.
Mupedzanhamo is Mutodi's 12th album and is expected to hit the market by the second week of February.
Apart from singing which he does passionately as a hobby, Mutodi is also a businessman, politician and an academic after authoring several Geography textbooks used in High Schools in Commonwealth countries and Zimbabwe as well as contributing to research in Financial Markets and Economics.
Mutodi graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography and War Studies from the University of Zimbabwe in the year 2001 and a Masters in Business Administration degree from the same University in the year 2015.
He is currently studying his PhD in Business Administration at the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Laws Degree at the University of Zimbabwe concurrently.
His music, although commanding respect and following on radio and among fans in Zimbabwe & South Africa has however been downplayed by Zimbabwean Entertainment journalists who remain entangled in a primitive mental prison that a rich and educated man cannot be a musician.
One of Zimbabwe's most talented songwriter Energy 'Musorowembada' Mutodi and his Mutodi Express have once again generously produced yet another album that promises to be a hit as usual.
He posted in his Facebook page that indeed, the country's music history will no longer be complete without mention of Mutodi who since entering the music scene in the year 2010 as a rhumba artist before taking on the popular sungura genre has made an immense contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through singing and writing.
Sungura music is popular among the poor and the middle class particularly the rural folks who constitute 70% of the country's population.
The latest album titled, "Mupedzanhamo", is expected to raise the bar in sungura circles and as usual will force other prominent musicians to revise their works set to be released this year if they are to give Mutodi any meaningful competition.
Mupedzanhamo is Mutodi's 12th album and is expected to hit the market by the second week of February.
Apart from singing which he does passionately as a hobby, Mutodi is also a businessman, politician and an academic after authoring several Geography textbooks used in High Schools in Commonwealth countries and Zimbabwe as well as contributing to research in Financial Markets and Economics.
Mutodi graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography and War Studies from the University of Zimbabwe in the year 2001 and a Masters in Business Administration degree from the same University in the year 2015.
He is currently studying his PhD in Business Administration at the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Laws Degree at the University of Zimbabwe concurrently.
His music, although commanding respect and following on radio and among fans in Zimbabwe & South Africa has however been downplayed by Zimbabwean Entertainment journalists who remain entangled in a primitive mental prison that a rich and educated man cannot be a musician.
Source - Byo24News
