Oliver Mtukudzi

Yeah

... um, late legends like the late Oliver Mtukudzi.

Mm-hmm.

Um, they also sing gospel songs like the Fungisai, the Shengi Sai thing.

...

there needs to be systems whereby when somebody is a band and they say they're going to be doing certain covers, there has to be a system that says that.

So imagine Travelers Band is performing at Gava, right? They do an Oliver Mtukudzi song.

Mm-hmm.

For the younger crowd, Blue Peter, uh, was on at five past five with Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding, and John Leslie.

That edition was dancing to the Harare beat with Zimbabwean bands like the Bhundu Boys and Oliver Mtukudzi, so it was a proper music feature rather than the usual, uh, make-and-do.

Blue Peter doing Zimbabwean guitar bands on a Monday tea time is very late '80s, Lee, and it beats another sticky-back plastic spaceship.

I'd have been glued to that over the news any day of the week.

Started out his musical career in Zimbabwe.

He, uh, played with Thomas Mapfumo, he played with Oliver Mtukudzi, come down to South Africa.

He's also, you know, he's played and lived in other parts of the world.

Um, played with King Sunny Adé in Nigeria, and here in South Africa, you, you know, give me a big name, and I bet, I bet that, uh, Louis Mhlanga has played.

That's how it happens.

And you really have played with some extraordinary musicians, both in this country, um, in, in Zimbabwe.

I mean, I, I, I'm, I think m- many South Africans know Oliver Mtukudzi, but I'm not sure too many know Thomas Mapfumo, who's, who's 80 now, and he's still playing, and he's still fabulous to listen to.

Yes, yes, yes, I've worked with all those guys.