Musician and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo is 80 years old this month. The man, often dubbed the "Lion of Zimbabwe", is still ...

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Musical Instruments used: marimba, suction pops, array mbira, scraper flutes, cavaquinho, taishogoto, flairdrum, aquarion, vintage stylophone, kalimba, steel pan, vibraphone & Slapaphone Mary ...

Born in 1945 in a small town outside the capital Harare, Mapfumo lived in the countryside until he was 10, during which time he soaked up the sound of the mbira and the ngoma drum.

The intricate polyrhythms produced by the mbira are a hallmark of traditional Zimbabwean music. Once believed to summon the spirits of dead ancestors, the mbira was traditionally played only by men; ...

He is the son of one of the most revered musicians of the past fifty years, but Joachim Cooder is a force in his own right. He's in Ireland next week for a four-date tour ...

After 1980, Mapfumo and Sithole, his musical soulmate and long-time collaborator, perfected the mbira-to-guitar sound, a transposition African musicians in Rhodesia had been attempting ever since ...