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Music · Zimbabwe Mbira · 2021Nhemamusasa yePasi, with Singing
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Nhemamusasa yePasi, with Singing

Musekiwa Chingodza plays and sings Nhemamusasa yePasi, one of the oldest pieces of the Shona mbira repertoire.

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Mbira dzavadzimu

Musekiwa Chingodza

Zimbabwean mbira master, born in 1970 in Mwangara village, Murewa, into a family of mbira players. He plays the mbira dzavadzimu, the mbira of the ancestors, the instrument of the Shona bira: an ancestral tradition of its own in which the ancestors are called and spoken with through the night. He has played since he was five and is self-taught, learning by ear from the great gwenyambira.

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