"We are mixing people from many different lands and cultures. When we come from silence, I can explain how it is in my culture, so we can understand each other. I’m not the leader. The leader is mbira"
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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
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