Zimbabwean modern sound is vibrant and much too diverse for us to sum it up in a couple of songs but below are a few artists and their standout tracks that can help lift the Zimbabwean music veil.Īwa Khiwe is a Zimbabwean hip-hop artist from Nkayi, a rural district within the North Matebeland region of Zimbabwe. Instead, local dancehall is called Zim-dancehall, local hip-hop is called Zim-hip hop and so on and so on. Local musicians who pursued this international sound were initially bundled together in the early 2000s to form a new genre called “Urban Grooves” but the current generation of artists and producers have moved away from the term. This is mostly thanks to Zimbabwe’s diaspora community, an estimated 5 Million Zimbabweans – a third of the country’s total population – is scattered all over the world. Internationally, the genres that influence Zimbabwean sounds are primarily Dancehall, Hip Hop and House music. Local genres that influence modern Zimbabwean music are Mbira, a traditional Zimbabwean instrument which was popular within the rural areas and sungura – a more established retro 80’s Zimbabwean genre influenced by Kanindo from Eastern Central African origins – that grew from farms and ghettos. Macdonald “Macdee” Chidavaenzi of Eternal Productions is another versatile local music producer who has worked with several Zimbabwean artists including Trevor Dongo on his latest album 5136 Born In Highfield for a smoothed out afro fusion. Prince “Oskid” Tapfuma of Oskid Productions made a household name in 2016, for his production work on Winky D’s Gafa Life album, a distilled version of Zimbabwe pop. Another producer of note is Simbarashe “Cymplex” Moyo of Cymplex Music, who produced 2020 Zim-dancehall song of the year contenter, Fadza Mutengi by Poptain and Allanah. For example, Tamuka “Dj Tamuka” Mponda-Makuluni of Mushroom Media, who recently executive produced Nutty O’s critically acclaimed debut album Mustard Seed, pulls from r&b. The modern Zimbabwean sound is a fusion of local and international genres curated by various native music producers.
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