I started singing in church with my family, and joined the school choirs. Started playing mbira when I was 9, as well as marimba. I loved music so much I decided I wanted to study it in uni, something my parents struggled to accept for a few months as they were worried about what life would bring me. But thanks to a class that I took called Creative Arts at the African leadership Academy, my parents saw that there was a lot that one can do in the arts.
I then got a scholarship to study music at Dartmouth College and the awards I have received there have just reassured us that this is the right path ultimately I hope to start a Creative Arts Ecosystem, an arts space for creatives that inspires creativity and entrepreneurship
This past year I had a heartbreak, and I really wanted someone to comfort me.
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“This past year I had a heartbreak, and I really wanted someone to comfort me. This play is a reflection of that heartbreak, and how I imagined my grandmother comforting me during that time. I wrote a song called “Don’t cry” and
it also incorporates a Shona nursery rhyme “Ehuwe Nyarara mwana”, I think in the same way that we comfort babies and sing lullabies to them, adults also need that sort of comfort. The second song is called “Dreams” and was inspired by how unbelievably beautiful life has been of late.
I am having experiences that I could never have dreamt of. So when a person feels sad, they should know that life is not going to be as bad as it is at that moment but it will get better
