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Stella Chiweshe (also Stella Rambisai
Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe
Nekati, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe, b.
Mujumi Village, Mhondoro, Zimbabwe, July 8,
1946) is a Zimbabwean
musician. She is internationally known for her singing and playing
of the mbira
dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of
Zimbabwe. She is one of the few female players of the instrument,
which she learned to play from 1966 to 1969 when even fewer females
played the instrument.
Chiweshe has performed numerous times in Germany and has also participated in the WOMAD festival (1994 in
the United States, 1995 in Australia, and 2006 in Spain). In 2004 she toured England with her
daughter.
In addition to performing as a soloist, Chiweshe often performs
in combination with guitars. She has also organized an
international women's music festival in Zimbabwe.
In 1989, she starred in I Am the Future, a Godwin
Mawuru film about a young woman who travels to the big city to
escape Zimbabwe's independence war in the rural
areas.
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