music – Becoming The Muse

Awards and Challenges…

Of My 2021 Music

5 Dec 20215 Dec 2021

Sundays are easy kinda days, music and chill.... Easy like a Sunday morning. 🎤🎶 A walk through the year with the music which has featured my blog in 2021. *Click…

Of Dough Major’s Shebeen Rap Papa Vol. 2

23 Oct 202123 Oct 2021

Have you heard of a shebeen? A shebeen is an unlicensed establishment that sells liquor. In the hood the more common one is a house, a meeting place with a…

Defining Moments…

Of The Zulu Warrior

22 Oct 202122 Oct 2021

We were taught to sing this song in the first grade music class, at Victoria Primary School Masvingo, in the early 90s. It just randomly popped into my head and…

Of Zuva Risingasvike Enzo Ishall

12 Oct 20215 Dec 2021

After bidding the Zimbabwean music scene an emotive farewell and making headlines a month ago, when he announced he was quitting music, Enzo Ishall is back. His comeback track titled…

Of Boney M.

2 Sep 20213 Sep 2021

Pop Quiz: What do Boney M. and Milli Vanilli have in common? Quick recap.. You’d know that Milli Vanilli was a 90s RnB duo who shot to fame, then had…

Of Milli Vanilli

20 Aug 202120 Aug 2021

Milli Vanilli was RnB that shot to fame in the early 90s.. They had it all, the look, the walk and the Grammys… Rob Pilatus, left, and Fab Morvan of…

Of Ndaremerwa – Holy Ten Lyrics And Translation

24 Aug 202015 Sep 2020

Music like poetry is a mirror that reflects if not the nature of the artist then the world around the art. I have this song on my playlist by an…

Of Ghetto Rules

14 Jul 202014 Jul 2020

Van Choga has just released a new album, an international collaboration with Ghanaian sensation Ay Poyoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM-faSmnfxk Its been less than a few hours since the track was dropped on…

Of The Sound Of Home

Walk with me down my playlist of 5 songs from Zimbabwe. The current most played song on my playlist is Jah Prayzah’s Kwayedza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7X0lgMHhuQ https://twitter.com/Beatonm5/status/1266422100421685249?s=20 That mbira instrument has me…

Of Jah Prayzah’s Kwayedza Lyrics And Translation

28 May 202029 May 2020

Kwayedza is the 15th track on Jah Prayzah’s album Hokoyo. Kwayedza means Dawn or Sunrise. This track opens with a distinctive mbira instrumental and you can almost feel it lull…

Awards and Challenges…

Of The Best Music Of The Year #BOTY2019

There’s just something about music, good music, the kind of music that never grows old….. and to quote the late Bob Marley “........when it hits you, you feel no pain”…

Of Seal’s Kiss From A Rose: unExplained

21 Nov 201927 Sep 2020

Kiss From A Rose I remember listening to Kiss From A Rose on repeat on a Sony Walkman cassette player with surround stereo sound. The vocals, the music, the mastering,…