Cde Chinx to sing from the grave

The late revolutionary musician Dick "Cde Chinx" Chingaira's second wife Ntombizodwa says she is ready to keep the legacy of her late husband alive.

Ntombizodwa, who is a musician in her own right, said she will not sit on her laurels, vowing to continue where she and her husband left.

Cde Chinx, who was buried at Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare on Friday had released an album titled Good Zimbabwe, featuring Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services. Ntombizodwa also featured on the album.

In an interview with The Standard Style on the sidelines of her husband's burial, Ntombizodwa said it was painful to lose her husband, but she vowed to keep his legacy alive.

Ntombizodwa, who was part of the Zimbabwe Republic Police band that backed Cde Chinx when he released the album Hondo Yakura Muzimbabwe at the height of the land invasions, said she will soon release a posthumous album.

"It is very painful because he is the one who taught me how to sing and I won't rest. I want to be possessed by Cde Chinx," she said.

"If you look at the last days at galas when he was no longer fit, he would make me his lead vocalist to sing like him."

She said there were eight unrecorded songs.

"We have another album that we did as Barrel of Peace and it had not been released although we had finished almost everything. You will be listening to it very soon when we take it to the airwaves," she said, appealing for assistance to support her career.

"If I am assisted to be able to record, there is nothing that can stop me. As his wife, I want to sing his songs like what he did and I want to record sounding like him."

In a similar fashion, one of Cde Chinx's sons, Sagelaw is also reported to be on the same path of keeping the legacy of the Rodger Confirm singer alive.

Meanwhile, veteran broadcaster and comedian Lawrence Simbarashe described the late cde Chinx as a brave artist. The two also worked together at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation shortly after independence.

"When he was sick, I visited him and I thought he would get back to his feet. I later heard that he has passed on the same year we lost another friend of ours and it is very sad," he said.