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The marimba was introduced in Zimbabwean Music during the early 1960s when the Kwanongoma College of African Music in Bulawayo adopted it. [21] Founders of the college considered that marimba could boost the musical development of the country, and design a model that it's now known as Kwanongoma marimba. [22]
Mbira (/ ə m ˈ b ɪər ə / əm-BEER-ə) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs (at minimum), the right forefinger (most mbira), and sometimes the left forefinger.
Abraham Dumisani Maraire (27 December 1944 – 25 November 1999), known to friends as "Dumi", was a Zimbabwean musician. He was a master performer of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. He specialized in the form of mbira called nyunga nyunga, as well as the Zimbabwean marimba.
The marimba (/ m ə ˈ r ɪ m b ə / mə-RIM-bə) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound.
Shona music is the music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe.There are several different types of traditional Shona music including mbira, singing, hosho and drumming.Very often, this music will be accompanied by dancing, and participation by the audience.
Zimbabwean marimba based upon Shona music has also become popular in the West, which adopted the original use of these instruments to play transcriptions of mbira dzavadzimu (as well as nyunga nyunga and matepe) music. The first of these transcriptions had originally been used for music education in Zimbabwe.
Musekiwa Chingodza (born 1970) – mbira and marimba player; Chirikure Chirikure (born 1962) – musician and songwriter; Stella Chiweshe (1946-2023) – mbira player and singer-songwriter; Dizzy Dee (1999–1999) – Australia-based reggae artist; Leonard Dembo (1959–1996) – guitarist and singer-songwriter; member of the band Barura ...
Musekiwa Chingodza was born in Mwangara village, Murewa, Zimbabwe, in 1970. He began playing mbira at the age of five and is self-taught. He began playing mbira at the age of five and is self-taught. Through listening to other gwenyambira, or great mbira players, he developed a strong attachment to and love for mbira music.