Tuku Takes Over Mukanya’s Band?
The country yesterday woke up to news that celebrated musician Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi is now singing with the Blacks Unlimited, a band that has been backing Chimurenga music guru, Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo.
Tuku has always performed with the Black Spirits but an advert on the entertainment section of yesterday’s issue of The Herald revealed that Tuku Music Promotions would present a welcome back show for Oliver Mtukudzi and the Blacks Unlimited.
Maybe that explains why the show at the City Sports Centre in Harare next Saturday will be costing a hefty $2 million.
Tuku has been in the United States and it could not be established, at the time of going to print, whether he took advantage of his brief stint there to take over Mukanya’s band.
Mukanya is now based in the United States.
Stop Press: city.com has since established that someone at Tuku Music made a boob when writing up the advert. Instead of writing “Black Spirits” he/she wrote “Blacks Unlimited”. Although a Tuku spokesman wanted to blame the media for the error, a quick check with the original copy of the advert proved that the “copywriter” must have “fallen asleep on the driving wheel”, to quote Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Dr Gideon Gono.
Via The Herald
