Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited

Description

The Blacks Unlimited Band typically do the following services: perform music for live audiences and recordings. Practice playing instruments or singing to improve techniques. The job may include: negotiating contracts and fees finding and booking events and venues that match our career strategy, advising on career decisions,publicity and promotion, helping on career decisions such as which record producer to work with,or which songs to perform and managing.

Set-List

1 Chikonzero
2 Usatambe nenyoka
3 Bhutsu mutandarika
4 Chiruzevha chapera
5 Kariba
6 Chirombo
7 Chinogiya
8 Mugarandega
9 Hwahwa
10 Pidigori
11 Karigamombe
12 Ndavekuenda
13 Chinungu
14 Disaster
15 Shabeen
16 Chipatapata
17 Mamvemve
18 Ndozvauri
19 Samson
20 Zimbabwe

Biography

During the bloody struggle for independence in the 1970s,Mapfumo's sinewy songs had told Zimbabweans who they were-farmers fighters,and artists, rightful inheritors of a stolen African pastoral.
The broad framework of Mapfumo's story is a set of facts all can agree upon. Thomas Mapfumo was born in 1945 in the then Southern Rhodesia. He began writing and recording music in 1962 and has never stopped. He earned national prominence during the liberation war with piquant,subversive songs that turned dreamers into fighters who,in turn, brought down one of colonial Africa's fiercest white regimes. ... He created a legacy as one of the boldest and most tireless critics of Robert Mugabe's Zanu(PF) regime. Harassed by the very government he once helped to empower, Mapfumo moved his family into exile in Eugene,Oregon USA in 2000. At first, Mapfumo returned to Zimbabwe for highly anticipated year-end concerts in 2004 and 2018 and 2019,reaching his most loyal fans only through pointed public remarks, concerts attended by Zimbabweans in places like UK and South Africa and recordings made in exile. Read More

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Experience

Thomas Mapfumo is one of the most brilliant African creators of the past century. He is also the embodiment of a tumultuous history rooted in a heaf-on collision of Western ambition and African culture. More than a hit maker or a pop icon. Thomas has created a tapestry of civil trauma, gnarled with imperfections and gilded with genius. He has achieved greatness in his way,without guidance or training, taking what pleases him from the idioms and musicians around him,and weaving all of this,along with his own incisive poetry,into the fabric of his "chimurenga" music

Previous Clients

Folk Roots, USA; Kennedy Center, USA; World Roots Festival, USA; Reggae on the River,USA;SOBs, NYC
USA; Afrofest,USA;ELREY, USA;The Sanctuary for independence,USA;Baseline Joburg SA, OneLove, PHAB Entertainment ,Shamstone Production & Entertainment SA. Mapungubwe Arts Festival,Polokwane,South Africa;Mean Fiddler,London;

Suitable for

Anniversary Party Awards Ceremony Birthday Party (Adult) Charity / Fundraising Event Christmas Party Community Event Concerts / Tours Corporate Event Festival / Outdoor Event Grand Opening Party New Year's Eve Party Private Party Trade Show / Exhibitions

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