Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
50 top tracks
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
50 top tracks
Albums
Chimurenga explosion
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Rise Up
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Chimurenga '98
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Gwindingwi Rine Shumba
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Chimurenga Rebel/Manhungetunge
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Rise Up (Real World Gold)
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Exile
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Toi Toi
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Chimurenga Forever: The Best Of Thomas Mapfumo
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Real World 25
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Live 8 At Eden: Africa Calling
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited (Live @ KEXP) 5/11/09
Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited
Biography
Thomas Mapfumo was born in 1945 in Marondera, Zimbabwe. He sang with various bands including The Zutu Brothers, Hallelujah Chicken Run Band and the Acid Band before forming The Blacks Unlimited when he and Jonah Sithole merged their bands in 1977....Read more on Last.fm
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Thomas Mapfumo was born in 1945 in Marondera, Zimbabwe. He sang with various bands including The Zutu Brothers, Hallelujah Chicken Run Band and the Acid Band before forming The Blacks Unlimited when he and Jonah Sithole merged their bands in 1977.
The band developed a style called chimurenga music, meaning "(revolutionary) struggle" - a highly politicised electrification of traditional Shona mbira music, with lyrics railing against the colonial government in Rhodesia and, later, against Mugabe.
Mapfumo now lives in exile in the United States. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Thomas+Mapfumo+and+the+Blacks+Unlimited">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
