Musekiwa Chingodza

Musekiwa Chingodza (born in 1970) is a Zimbabwean mbira and marimba player and teacher. Quotes Our music is both medicine and food, as mbira has the power to heal and to provide for people. Memorable marimba mix in store at Brickworks, May 14 2014 Yes, he speaks to me like “I am Chingodza. I just need the mbira.” and then my parents bought me the mbira from <Mukucha> in 20 cents. Yes. When I was sick, my family took me to traditional medicine. The healer tried to put some herbs to chased away bad spirit, but before they use that medicine, the voice spoke to me. It said “I am Chingodza. I need my mbira”. The healer asked my aunt and my sister who all has passed away, “Did it make sense about this little boy said?” They said “Chingodza is our last name and it is my great-grand father. They took me back home and told family about what I had just said. My grandfather was still alive at that time, and he said “Now we need to take wooden plate and traditional mat.” Then they make me to sit on that traditional mat, and they put the wooden plate beside me. And then my grandfather who clap in front of me, put a stick in the wooden plate, and clap and sing “Welcome big my father. We want to you to know that we love you. We want you to look after this body you dwell this time. You are amazing. We want to do exactly what you do or what you know at your time. We are going to brew and have a ceremony especially for you, welcome back to our family and buy the mbira you want.” They bought me blue sky cloth, <Retzo >and a cloth with lion prints for the ceremony. Someone covered me with those cloths and asked me to play the mbira to them. So from that time, We have ceremony for asking to him “we need to be looked after, we need support from you. I lost the mbira in the United States. We went to there for Oregon Country Fair. About 70000 people come this place and play music and different things. When I was sitting in the woods, I just know what happened with the mbira. When I think deeply about lost my mbira, I got my great grandfather's mbira. Use that mbira, it was also find it. He found this mbira in the bushes long time ago. This mbira is playing and inheriting in family. I don't know how was that happened. I was drunk but not excessive to lose something. <Jennifer Kaiga>, she is the one who gave me that mbira, she was ordering the mbira from <Mukucha> for sale. In America, someone order the mbiras from <Mukucha> through Jennifer. Jennifer found that mbira in eBay. “I know you lost the mbira from <Mukucha> you loving. I just two mbiras in eBay.” I bought them. There were two mbiras. They said chose the mbira one by one, so I choose that one. I bought both of them from eBay. I can't sell them, I will keep them. My grandfather was also good mbira player. My father also played the mbira. Now I am. Also Herbert Matema, he was my father's brother. Our family was known as the mbira player. My father play the mbira for so many spirits. Yes. He has the spirits of <Gomboe>, one of old nature spirits. The spirit is brother of <Bilinaganire> and totem is <Kore-kore>. My grandfather always said “when you playing skill is same as my father's When I play just it comes, I don't remember. Even though I thought “Ahh I like this part what I sang!”, it doesn't come back to me. But these parts always come. MUSEKIWA CHINGODZA, n.d Category:1970 births Category:1970s Category:Instrumentalist Category:Living people