ZIMBABWE DANCEHALL REGGAE Zimdancehall is a sub-saharian music genre popular in Zimbabwe.It is related to jamaican dancehall but with 70% of the songs produced so far are of Zimbabweans venicular language and shona urban lingo. This type of music originated as far as 1980 when the Jamaican king of regggae Bob Marley performed a show celebrating Zimbabwes independence.The performance of the song Zimbabwe by Bob Marley also found a cultural development of rastafarians in Zimbabwe although they constitute a small percentage of the total population. Reggae in generally appreciated in Zimbabwe than any other southern african countries due to a various facts and one of them is being a cultural music that represent african culture. During the early 90s,due to the lack of financial support mostly Zimbabweas reggae music were failing to make names for themselves and were facing many drawback factors with existance of much celebrated Sungura music,Zimbabwe reggea was fading. A few artist are known to have made it in the mid-90s and most Innocent Ustiwegota popularly known as Inno and the likes of Potato,named after his choked alike voice,Jah Trevor hall and Major E. The demand of music started to regain its position as more appearing and disappearing acts were done by these artiste and others. THE FOUNDATIO OF Zimdancehall By the late 90s more young artiste were played on airwave as they were more likely to produce raggae songs but mostly dancehall and they gained the crowd by presenting shona urban slang lyrics. This set the foundation of now the uprising international performed Zimdancehall music. Musicians like Decibel,Marlvin S,Major E,Booker Tee,Sniper Storm and with the help of dancehall selectors like Jah b(the late) Templeman,daddy distress,bad man,winky d,General diesel,Jackie b,Inno T, Godfather,Culture Kid and many more,zimdancehall started to make more sense. With the aide of performed live shows during summer and school vacations the Zimdancehall became popular among most Zimbabwe youths.By year 2002,producers started to crop out with local produced riddims and alot of recording labels were establish and some of the most famous are black label records,logarithm records and many more. With many resources and avail for the what seems to be the new generation of the zimdancehall many artiste started to record and competion on lyrics quality among zimdancehall giants like sniper storm,Badman gwans,winky d,Daddy distress,Guspy warrior,Dadza dee and many more. By 2010 many zimdancehall musicians were already popular locally and a few managed to make it to perform international and these include Winky D,Sniper Storm,King Shady,King labash and many performanced in Europe,Asia and the USA. Now zimdancehall has rise so fast with the upcoming artist like Killer T who is perfoming at Uk -Zim cup clush today,soul jah love,seh calaz,dadza d,free man.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:00:30 +0000
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