Stella Chiweshe

• country:Zimbabwe
• region:Southern Africa
• style(s):Afro
• label:Piranha Arts (Piranha Records & Publishing)
• type:Band, Solo
• gender:female
• instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
• artist posted by:art.e.m artists & event management

Line up

• Stella Chiweshe (mbira, vocals, perc.)

Links

• Stella Chiweshe @ art.e.m-berlin.de
• Stella Chiweshe's personal HP

Zimbabwe's foremost mbira player Stella Rimbisai Chiweshe - The Queen of Mbira - haunting mbira lines with percussion and call & response singing behind her evocative vocals. She sings and plays songs of liberation, spiritual experience and social commentary. The mbira dzaVadzimu, the classic Zimbabwean thumb-piano, is a medium for playing songs handed down from generation to gerneration for centuries, used for maintaining contact with the spirits of the Shona people.

Performances: solo | quartet (2 mbira, percussion, drums) | band (2 mbira, marimba, guitar, bass, drums and percussion)
Workshops in different kinds of art and tradition

Upcoming tour - ask for dates: March 2008