Yesteryear musician Themba Ndlovu of the Meet Me in Zimbabwe fame says he is returning to Bulawayo after spending many years abroad.
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Ndlovu who had a stint overseas is now living in South Africa, but plans to relocate to Zimbabwe next year.
“I am trying to study the environment here, learn the situation because after such a long absence things have changed and one can never jump in with their eyes closed,” he told Southern Eye Lifestyle in Bulawayo recently.
“I have a studio in South Africa and I am yet to decide whether to move it here or open another one, but that takes a lot of investment.”
His mission when he returns home is to grow the local music industry to international levels. He feels that local artistes have the talent, but it needs to be refined.
Ndlovu is a founding member of the group Children of Nandi together with his late wife Bajabulile Ndlovu Zikalala and Sam Hlatshwayo.
His most memorable stint with the group was in 1988 after Hlatshwayo had left the group.
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Ndlovu performed with a star-studded band that included Jethro Shasha, Andy Brown, Louis Mhlanga, Don Gumbo and Busi Ncube at a Unicef show to highlight the plight of Mozambican children.
He left Zimbabwe in 1977 to study medicine in the United States, but ended up moving to Greece that same year and started studying sound engineering.
However, he had to move to Germany which had better opportunities for sound engineers.
His music career began to blossom when he started playing bass guitar for a group called GEM Movement originally from Ghana.
“I have been very active in the music industry as part of many groups, especially Children of Nandi, but that group holds too many memories of the times I had with my wife,” he said.
“I would not like to continue with the same group name as I would have to replace a person, which is very difficult for me. I have been working on a project since 2000 where I will produce an instrumental album.
“There would be no words at all because music should be universal and the beat breaks all language barriers.
“My children have also taken up music at various levels and if they want they will help me with this project.”
His first daughter Nongoma is a sound engineer while Baculile is a guitarist and Nandi is a beat maker.
The three girls are also vocalists.
