Chiwoniso Maraire (5 March 1976 – 24 July 2013) was a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter, and exponent of Zimbabwean mbira music. She was the daughter of Zimbabwean mbira master and teacher Dumisani Maraire[1] (and former officer in the Zimbabwe Ministry of Sports and Culture in the early 1980s).[2] Describing the mbira, an instrument traditionally used by male musicians,[3] she said, "It is like a large xylophone. It is everywhere in Africa under different names: sanza, kalimba, etc. For us in Zimbabwe it is the name for many string instruments. There are many kinds of mbiras. The one that I play is called the nyunga nyunga, which means sparkle-sparkle."[4]
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^Ropafadzi Mapimhidze, "Multimedia: A tribute to Chiwoniso Maraire", NewsDay, 26 July 2013.
^Robin Denselow, "Chiwoniso obituary", The Guardian, 26 July 2013.
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master, singer, and songwriter ChiwonisoMaraire who became her close friend and artistic collaborator until Maraire’s passing in 2013. In 1999, Dunietz...
Broadcasting Corporation vision 2020 music initiative along with ChiwonisoMaraire and Busi Ncube. In 2002, Kombo was a founding member of Ruvhuvhuto...
four years. He opened Monolio studios in 2007 but also worked with ChiwonisoMaraire as part of her tour band which toured Europe in 2007 and 2008. He...
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