Chiwoniso

Chiwoniso Maraire was born in Olympia, Washington in 1976. Her father, ethnomusicologist Dumisani Maraire, taught marimba and mbira in America between 1972 and 1990, and was a renowned stage performer along with her mother, Linda Nemarundwe Maraire...

chiwoniso”Musical instruments were a core element of my childhood. By the age of four I was playing mbira; “Tichazomuona”, my first recording with my parents, was released when I was nine” remembers Chiwoniso. 

Chiwoniso has been fronting her acoustic group Chiwoniso & Vibe Culture for the past four years. From 2001 to 2004, she was also a core member of the multinational all-women’s band Women’s Voice, whose original members hailed from Norway, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, America, Israel and Algeria. Chiwoniso has also been busy in film, having worked on the soundtracks for movies and documentaries by an array of Zimbabwean writers and film producers in the last ten years. 

In may we welcome here new CD at the Cumbancha-label. And she will be at the Afro-Latino Festival for the FIRST time in Belgium !