You know that since we were colonised for 100 years, for all that time our traditional music was oppressed, people were not free to sing their tradit… - Stella Chiweshe

About Stella Chiweshe

'Stella Chiweshe was born on the (8th of July 1964) in Mujumi Village, Mhondoro, about 45 miles from the capital city, Harare . She is married to a German national where she now permanently resides. Her daughter Virgina Mukwesha is also a musician having been taught to play mbira since she was 12. Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is a popular Zimbabwean mbira player and arguably the first pioneer of Chimurenga music. She made history by becoming the first successful female artist to venture into the male-dominated music industry. She is internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. She is one of the few female players of the instrument, which she learned to play from 1966 to 1969 when even fewer females played the instrument."

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