History of Sungura Music Genre (Zimbabwe)

[residentalien]

I think we cant talk about sungura without talking about Jonah Moyo who is arguably the father of Sungura music for he started playing Tsava Tsava(Sungura) way before Sungura boys. Pengaudzoke also had a very huge contribution to the sungura genre

[jimmyguitarmanbuzuzi]

Great information.. however the exclusion is of the famous Devera Ngwena jazz Band on the talk was a bit of a blow.. mr Jonah Moyo and he’s crew chunned hit after hit from the early 80’s up to 90’s because of there popularity they opened show for ub40 received a lot of accolades, even Leonard dembo Tuku they use to curtain raise for Devera Ngwena .. solo na mutsai, masvingo ne carpet wanguP etc all these became national anthems..

[stephenroskilly]

Would have been more complete with inclusion of Jonah Moyo.

As a side note, the Gramma producer, Abinel Mapfumo actually rejected Jonah Moyo and Devera Ngwenya at their audition session. I couldn’t believe his lack of vision so invited Tony Rivett, the Gramma A&R director to take a listen. Tony loved the music and proceeded to produce Jonah’s music himself thereafter. A close call for Jonah. But his talent could not be allowed to be lost.
By the way, Shed Studios despite being based at the Gramma building, was always independent and Gramma never owned shares in the company.
Thanks for the video though. Some wonderful memories of truly great musicians.

[oitsilemasole]

Ngwenya Brothers were also part of the bands that lit the 1990s scene. Paul Matavire.

[Roqqiz]

Wonderful research just to add try to find Kanindo, hundhwe, benga music. Relationship with someone called Phares Kanindo the founder of the record label known as Sungura that marketed Luo benga towards the Southern Africa. The record label later became a genre in Zimbabwe plus his name KANINDO. Wish I added some little information

[ClimbnotWar]

This is awesome 🎉 thank you for making this

[peterpeterholt]

Thanks for this. Really interesting and informative.

[tendayichimwara]

Great stuff and well researched👏🏽👏🏽 really enjoyed the context

[tinashechidziva]

I wonder why Chamunorwa nebeta and Pengaudzoke are always ignored

[learntobeyourownpersonaldo]

kana zviri zvesungura musasiya Jonha Moyo the Solo na Mutsai hit maker

[munyamurombe]

I would say it is a good start where more research documentation still has to be done. This particular documentary has tried to touch on too many issues of local music yet its title is about Sungura Music which is a genre of Zimbabwe Music. There is a lot to write /record on Sungura Music alone hence the need to focus largely on that. My personal view is that Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, Oliver Mtukudzi don't belong to this genre as they developed their own distinct music. In short Sungura Music is one long Chapter when writing a book about Zimbabwe Music which has developed a lot of interesting genres...and that chapter is way longer than what has been represented here. How did the presenters fail to mention "Kumusha KwaAmbuya' song by The Sungura Boys fronted by John Chibadura as the lead singer. That is one particular song that brought Sungura Music to the forefront. Ephraim Joe's role in promoting the genre is underplayed in here as well as the likes of Sheperd Chinyani. Job Mashanda's career may have been short-lived but he deserves some mention. They are many missing piece which more documentaries are hoped can help fill using this documentary as a template.

[kudajenami]

I pick the late Tineyi Chikupo as the father of sungura, he came to the fore way back in the 70s, long before the others arrived on the scene...

[seniorpat]

This genre was never called Sungura in the days, it was actually called Museve or simply jit

During the Bumdu boys, Jona Moyo, Leonard Dembo, John Chibadura, Marxist Chimbetu brothers and many more era they never called their music Sungura Even The old Khiama boys never says their music was Sungura

The name Sungura was of course a band name not a genre,

This name was somewhat used as a genre only during the Aleck Macheza AKA Alick Macheso time when he started chanting and praising himself and mentioning his band, band members and eventually called himself king of Sungura

[JoshuMawarire]

The first sungura was created by Jonah moyo, not that group you're mentioning

[sinikiwegarutsa-exkg]

Ephraim Joe , Cephas Karushanga ndiyo sungura

[cleraldo]

Wats the samanyenga song at the end. Who's the musician

[learntobeyourownpersonaldo]

Why not mentioning Kasongo band which consist of artists like Mako sibanda (dhongi na mvuu), Knowledge kunenyati(baba rutsoka)
, Mukoma ketai Muchawaya

[alMax-ni]

There's a lot of misinformation regarding what you refer to as sungura. This docu tried albeit in vain, to unlock this type of music by name dropping. Yes museve music, also referred to as tsavatsava by jonah moyo back then had immense influences from mainly benga music and to a certain extend congo/zaire rhumba/soukous. DO7 shirati jazz, super mazembe, migori super stars, les wanika etc were the influencers to evolution of Zimbabwean fast paced music. I would consider pioneers of museve as okavango boys, andrew ngoyi, tinei chikupo, ok success and later jonah moyo and deverangwena.later to emerge were the likes of muddy face, sungura boys, nyaminyami, dembo, maxist brothers and bundu boys to a certain extend . If an artist or a promoter names his label sungura or kanindo....shall we then say that type of music is kanindo or sungura. I blame those who just just gave names without research and those who also followed bandwagon. I have avoided mention of bands like great sounds and new tutenkamen as they don't quite fit in this museve version of zim music.