Topic: Entertainment

Voice Winner Tessanne Chin & Idol Winner Fantasia to share stage in NYC

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New York City: On Saturday, April 11, 2015, tri-state area music lovers will get the opportunity to see two powerhouse singers perform live - Tessanne Chin, season 5 winner of The Voice and American Idol winner Fantasia. Both women will share stage at an event billed 'Voices In Concert' that will be held at the newly renovated Kings Theatre in Brooklyn.

Munya Mataruse Joins Tuku on US Tour

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Upcoming Pakare Paye Arts Centre guitar prodigy, Munya Mataruse, has expressed his excitement at being asked to join Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi on his latest tour of the United States and Canada. African musical giant Tuku’s seven stop tour will take him and his band to venues in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts in the US and Ontario in Canada. Tuku and his band, accompanied by Mataruse, arrived in the United States on Wednesday and are now in Hanover, New Hampshire where their first show was set for last night, January 29. Tuku opened the Norton-based Pakare Paye Centre in 2004 as a... Continue Reading

Zimbabwe: Black Bird, Peekay lead awards nomination list

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By Kenneth Matimaire – MUTARE – Female emcee Nonkululeko Vundla better known as Black Bird in rap circles is leading the Zim Hip-Hop Awards nomination list together with male rapper Peekay. The two rappers were nominated in four categories each at the most prestigious event in the local hip hop calendar scheduled for December 17. Black Bird was nominated in the Best Female, Best Video, Best Hip-hop Journalist and Best Promoter categories for her television show Hotbox. Peekay of the Ma1 fame is also up for the Best Male, Best Collaboration, Best Newcomer and Video of the Year category. The two outstanding artists lock... Continue Reading