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Ephat Mujuru

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Born in:Zimbabwe
Year of Birth:1950
Year of death:2001

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Ephat Mujuru (1950–2001), was a Zimbabwean musician, one of the 20th century's finest players of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe.
Although Mujuru played all of Zimbabwe's five types of mbira, he specialty was the mbira dzavadzimu.
Ephat Mujuru was raised in a small village in Manicaland, near the Mozambican border, and was taught to play the mbira by his grandfather, Muchatera Mujuru. Muchatera was a medium for one of the most important ancestor... more

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