Wesh | zh

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is one of the few women playing the male-dominated mbira-based music of the Shona people. Born in the late 1940s, Chiweshe grew up in Zimbabwe's forest region of Mhondoro, about 45 miles from the capital city, Harare. Chiwese began learning to play the mbira dza vadzimu in 1964. It was very unusual for a girl to play mbira at that time and Chiweshe had to face the dissaproval of her community, where woman performers were often treated as "loose women." Chiweshe perservered to become perhaps the best known player of the instrument outside Zimbabwe. The mbira dza...

Stella Chiweshe (also Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe, b. Mujumi Village, Mhondoro, Zimbabwe, November 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 in the mid-1960s when even fewer females played the instrument. 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...

It was early in 2008 when Somesha (guitars) and Ajay(vocals,guitars) decided to culminate a few ideas they had, into the song that was to be the band’s first titled ‘Yuddhabhumi’. The duo’s keen interest in medieval Indian warfare, history, mythology and ancient Indian rituals/magick is what they wanted to portray through their style of death metal and decided to name the band Dhwesha meaning hatred/revenge in their local language. They wanted to give Dhwesha an identity of its own to rise above the paradigm of generic death metal bands and with Ajay’s mastery at being able to write lyrics in...