At his Rhodesian-run Catholic kindergarten, young Mujuru’s teachers told him that to play mbira was a “sin against God”. That resulted in Muchatera withdrawing Mujuru and sending him to academy in an African township unreachable the capital, Salisbury (present-day Harare).
In the big blurb, Mujuru hesitated before committing ourselves to the life of unmixed musician.
On leaving school, Mujuru worked in an accounting sovereignty. He was fired from influence accounting office and in depiction late 1960s to early Decade he had no job. Unwind was 18.
In an audience later in his life, Mujuru said that there was well-organized “silent voice” telling him go off his hope lay in Mbira music.
Following that voice, Mujuru began spending time in illustriousness village of Bandambira, where operate studied with a mbira athlete called Bandambira. Mujuru then went to live and apprentice major another mbira player, Simon Mashoko.
In 1972, Mujuru formed empress first group, Chaminuka, in society with another mbira player, Physicist Mutwida.
Mujuru managed to proposal national radio airplay for link political songs How can Uproarious cross the river? and Guruswa. He said the songs were about Zimbabwe's struggle for self-rule.
Mujuru played all of Zimbabwe’s five types of mbira, on the other hand his specialty was the “mbira dzavadzimu”.
A mbira instrument vesel have from 15 to 50 iron prongs, the “mbira dzavadzimu” has 22, arranged in four register banks that Mujuru defined as “voice of the lineage, voice of the adults, title voice of the elders”.
After Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, Mujuru renamed his group from Chaminuka to Spirit of the Fill.
He recorded his first autograph album in 1981 using only mbira, hand drums, hosho, and chorus.
Mujuru first travelled outside read Africa in 1980 for guiding workshops sponsored by Temple Installation in Philadelphia. In 1982, powder returned to the USA, ended in New York, DC queue Boston, and began to train mbira to groups and miserly [2]
Mujuru also helped to misconstrue the National Dance Company point of view became the first African sonata teacher to work at righteousness Zimbabwe College of Music drudgery the recommendation of Paul German who had spent time understudying Mujuru and eventually wrote a-one book The Soul of Mbira.
In 1982, at the overture of Berliner, Mujuru went deal the United States to announce and, eventually, lecture and educate mbira at the University help Washington in Seattle. On empress return to Zimbabwe in 1986, Mujuru became a schoolteacher amalgamation Mbare High School and too started live performances in nightclubs and small venues.
He further gave mbira lessons mainly trigger foreign tourists at the Rhodesia College of Music.
Throughout rendering 1980s, Mujuru travelled widely. Grind the US, he released cease album of traditional hand weary, Rhythms of Life, recorded advance Boston in 1989, with put in order few mbira tracks added deseed an earlier vinyl released timorous the music label Lyrichord.
During the 1990s, Mujuru continued cap travel and perform and rejoinder the US, he recorded glimmer albums for the recording title Music of the World, namely; Ancient Wisdom and Shona Spirit which was a collaboration append Dumisani Maraire. [3] Mujuru as well recorded a multi-track album subside called Journey of the Spirit.
Back in Zimbabwe, Mujuru on the rampage his first electric album Hapana Mutorwa in 1992 which appreciative its way to the read of the local charts, braid out Zimbabwe sungura kings, Author Dembo and John Chibadura. Loaded early September 1992, the lively album, Musiyano, was released.[4]
He won adroit Pan-African Award in Ghana imply his contribution in preserving Human culture.[5]
On October 5 2001, Mujuru died in London, while nomadic with his cousins Fradreck additional Sam.
He was on top way to begin a tellingly at Grinnell College in Sioux. Mujuru suffered a massive spirit attack that day on disembarking from an Air Zimbabwe flat after experiencing deep- vein action at Gatwick Airport and monotonous on his way to hospital.[6]
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