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	Stella Chiweshe
		Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is Zimbabwe's Queen of Mbira and is the great grand daughter of Munaka, the resistance fighter who was hanged by the British during their occupation of Zimbabwe.
		Stella likens the 23 keys of her mbira to 23 voices.
		Stella was the first recording artist of the Piranha label (www.piranha.de) in 1987.
	www.africanmusiciansprofiles.com /stella.htm (395 words)

	CD Info - Stella Chiweshe
		A very spiritual album with references to spirits, a policeman possessed by the sounds of the m'bira, and a singing fish, it also includes a song she dreamed her grandmother was singing to her.
		The mbira or thumb piano, small and unassuming instrument from which Ms Chiweshe weaves her sonic fabric, is in Zimbabwe more than an instrument: it is the means through which communication with the spirit world is made possible.
		(Chiweshe made the first recording on the German label, which is now celebrating its 100th release by returning to where it started.) It's interesting to hear how much this archival material is oriented toward danceable rhythms, song form and the electric mbira sound.
	www.piranha.de /records/english/all_1900.htm (2157 words)

	African Music Encyclopedia: Stella Rambisai Chiweshe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is one of the few women playing the male-dominated mbira-based music of the Shona people.
		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.
		In 1974, Chiwese recorded her first single "Kasahwa," useing a borrowed mbira, The song was a hit and she went on to record 24 singles over the next six years.
	africanmusic.org /artists/chiweshe.html (217 words)

	World Music Central - Mbira Queen Stella Chiweshe Releases Double CD
		Chiweshe is as unstoppable as the music she has become famous for playing.
		Chiweshe talks of innate musical inspiration as if it physically emerges from her body.
		Chiweshe firmly believes that the gentle mbira timbre is “closely related to the sound of water, something that is innately familiar to all people, and therefore the mbira is instantly memorable and comforting.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20060426193246931 (614 words)

	Stella Chiweshe - Biography - AOL Music
		One of the few women to play the mbira, Chiweshe was taught to play by her mother's uncle in 1963 or 1964.
		According to World Music: The Rough Guide, Chiweshe "has provoked some criticism for her avant garde mixture of sacred and commercial music, a controversal issue in a country where music is so close to the spiritual centre of life".
		A talented actress and dancer, Chiweshe is a member of the National Dance Company Of Zimbabwe and is known for her portrayal of national hero, Mbuyo Nehanda.
	music.aol.com /artist/stella-chiweshe/3243/biography (293 words)

	About Stella Chiweshe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Her Majesty - The Queen of Mbira Music from Zimbabwe - like Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is often called, is the first female artist who gained in prestige and has been honored with recognition in a music tradition that's been dominated by men: in Mbira music - known as the backbone of Zimbabwean music.
		After playing through the whole night at forbidden reunions, Stella then returned to her every-day-struggle of survival as a young girl within a colonial environment.
		Stella's experience has been stimulating her to introduce Mbira music to the occidental context without loosing the relation to her Zimbabwean tradition: She creates warm dance grooves as well as popular songs always based on Mbira rhythms.
	www.stellachiweshe.co.zw /about.html (744 words)

	Stella Chiweshe: Talking Mbira - PopMatters Music Review
		Chiweshe is an amazing mbira player, and she could very easily trade in on just being the best one in the world if she wanted to.
		Chiweshe, who is from Zimbabwe, sings in the Shona language.
		Chiweshe dreamed that her brother appeared to her to tell her to play this song, that if she managed to play it correctly it would help him in the afterlife.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/chiweshestella-talking.shtml (939 words)

	Stella Chiweshe, Talking Mbira: Spirits of Liberation
		Stella's mbira sounds a lot like a xylophone to me. Now, I would not normally think that a CD could be released around a
		Chiweshe is known as the Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe.
		Reading through the CD liner notes, you find that Chiweshe is a very spiritual person, and a lot of that spirituality translates into her music.
	www.rambles.net /chiweshe_talking02.html (519 words)

	Stella Rambisai Chiweshe - Talking Mbira - Spirits of Liberation. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rarely is any country blessed with the citizenship of Stella Chiweshe’s mbira and spiritual evangelism.
		Refusing to be relegated to an mbira spectator, Chiweshe was driven from within to convince his uncles and grandparents to teach her how to play the mbira.
		In the early days, her critics suggested she was dishonoring the mbira tradition, however the very act of integration the two, Chiweshe was able to persuade young people to listen to mbira music more than they did before.
	www.zambuko.com /concerts/chiweshe_presskit/HSM-Chiweshe.HTM (850 words)

	Stella Chiweshe: The RootsWorld Interview
		When the young Stella Chiweshe decided to become a mbira player, there was major consternation from all of those around her.
		As mbira playing was entirely within the male domain, Chiweshe spent a lot of her time surrounded by men, which led the women in her village to look on her as being "loose," as she states herself.
		Certainly she broke significant new ground for the likes of Virginia Mukwesha (her daughter), Chiwoniso (daughter of celebrated mbira player, the late Dumisani Maraire) and the countless other female musicians in Zimbabwe today who juggle the burden of the traditional female role in society with the need to perform and be heard.
	www.rootsworld.com /interview/chiweshe.shtml (840 words)

	NPR : Stella Chiweshe, Live in Studio 4A
		Weekend Edition Sunday, October 19, 2003 · The mbira, or Zimbabwean thumb piano, is a revered ceremonial instrument from Southern Africa with two rows of metal keys mounted on a wooden soundboard.
		Much of the attention is focused on a woman known as the "mbira queen of Zimbabwe," Stella Chiweshe.
		After independence, Chiweshe's contributions to the music, theater, film and dance of Zimbabwe have made her one of the country's most successful and popular artists.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1470234 (320 words)

	Stella Chiweshe Downloads :: calabashmusic.com
		Stella Chiweshe _is_ the Queen of Mbira Music, as well as the first female Mbira player to gain recognition on a national or international level.
		Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is one of the few...
		On Stella Chiweshe's first double album she is travelling on one path in two directions.
	stellachiweshe.calabashmusic.com (590 words)

	Stella Chiweshe : Healing Tree: Best of Stella Chiweshe - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A compilation culled primarily from the Piranha label releases of Stella Chiweshe's masterful mbira work.
		Chiweshe manages throughout to show off her amazing ability on the "thumb pianos," though the mixing occasionally gets a bit more trippy and spacy than one might expect or hope for from a usually relatively traditional artist.
		In summary, while not the traditional fare from Chiweshe, this album is still certainly worth hearing, especially given its greatest-hits status.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,325680,00.html (304 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Stella Chiweshe
		Stella Chiweshe is one of the leading players of the mbira, also known as the thumb piano.
		Stella joins Jenni to talk about her role playing the mbira during forbidden traditional festivals and how she has became the inspiration for so many female musicians in Zimbabwe today.
		Stella Chiweshe is playing at The Spitz, 109 Commercial Street, Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 on 17th September.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/2002_38_mon_03.shtml (111 words)

	Stella Chiweshe / cdRoots
		She has been called the queen of the modern mbira, a revolutionary and a visionary, and this 2002 recording proves the accolades are not misplaced.
		Stella Chiweshe afterwards does not even remember what had been sung through her.
		Since then Stella has experimented with transferring the mbira music into a Western performance context without losing her close relationship to the tradition.
	www.cdroots.com /hm-chiwese02.html (640 words)

	Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique: Stella Chiweshe
		tella Chiweshe is the Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe.
		The mbira, a thumb piano, made of 22 to 28 metal keys, mounted on wood and placed inside a gourd as a means of resonator, is an integral part of Shona culture.
		Stella Chiweshe often does not remember what has been sung through her.
	www.geocities.com /MotorCity/Speedway/4939/frames/art_chiweshe.html (323 words)

	Stella Chiweshe - Music - Dandemutande Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dubbed the Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe, Stella Chiweshe brings an intense, joyful spirituality to her performances that entrances audiences around the world.
		Stella Chiweshe, Samson Mirazi, Virginia Mukwesha, Houzam Mustapha, Sabah Habas Mustapha, Leonard Ngwenya.
		Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Eric Makorora, Gilson Mangoma, Virginia Mukwesha, Leonard Ngwenya, Charles Willie, Tonderai Zinyou.
	www.dandemutande.com /Catalog/?cat=Music&artist=ChiwesheStella (336 words)

	Stella Chiweshe: Double Check - PopMatters Music Review
		Since the early ‘90s, Piranha has worked to establish Chiweshe’s reputation as the world’s premier player of the mbira, which is casually referred to as the African thumb piano.
		And, true to the album’s subtitle, we are treated to two markedly different aspects of the music of Stella Chiweshe.
		In the case of Stella Chiweshe, it s the joyous sounds of Zimbabwe.
	www.popmatters.com /pm/music/reviews/stella_chiweshe_double_check (751 words)

	Stella Chiweshe - The Planet - 29/03/2002
		STELLA CHIWESHE (PRON: chi-WESH-ee) was the first noted female player of Zimbabwe's so-called "thumb piano", & she's still Zimbabwe's only prominent female bandleader.
		Her instrument has great sprititual significance, which is a key to the hypnotic music on her new album..
		Stella Chiweshe's new CD, "TALKING MBIRA: spirits of liberation" is for the most part beautifully spare, & very much focused on her voice & mbira.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/music/planet/stories/s512680.htm (419 words)

	Stella R. Chiweshe Artist info
		Born 1946 in Mujumhi, a village in Mhondoro Zimbabwe, the woman now known by her people as Ambuya Chinyakare (Grandmother of Traditional Music) has had to struggle hard every step of the way to becoming her true self, the Queen of Mbira.
		"Stella Chiweshe is travelling on one path intwo dierections.
		She also visits the urban streets in Harare and calls on the younger, westernised generation to take pride in their own culture.
	www.piranha.de /records/english/artists/art_stella.htm (584 words)

	Stella Chiweshe : Ambuya? - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A singer from Zimbabwe, Stella Chiweshe is one of the few women who has mastered the mbira, an African thumb piano traditionally played by men.
		On Ambuya?, Chiweshe is joined by fellow mbira player Virginia Mkwesha and marimba players Samson Mirazi and Leonard Ngwena, as well as members of 3 Mustaphas 3 (an adventurous Western unit that has fused a wide variety of ethnic styles).
		Though this absorbing music shows her love of Zimbabwean traditions, Chiweshe isn't afraid of experimentation.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,64603,00.html (226 words)

	Stella Chiweshe Tickets
		Right from the first time she heard the captivating sound of mbira, the traditional 'thumb piano', Stella was determined to learn how to play it, even though it was almost unheard of for women to play mbira.
		With her outstanding abilities Stella directs the Mother Earth Trust - Network of Female Artists in Zimbabwe and also helped form the Zimbabwe Musicians Union.
		Stella sings, composes, and leads her own band, "Earthquake", which has had a very successful career internationally and was based in Germany for a number of years.
	www.smarttix.com /show.aspx?showcode=STE0&AID=NOA77 (297 words)

	Stella Chiweshe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stella Chiweshe (also Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe, b.
		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 independence war in the rural areas.
		"Stella Chiweshe: Seeking the sound of liberation" (interview by Jennifer Byrne, from RootsWorld)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stella_Chiweshe (185 words)

	World Music Central - Stella Chiweshe's International Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Zimbabwe’s foremost mbira player, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe has, over the past 30 years, emerged as one of the most original artists in the contemporary African music scene.
		As the only woman in Zimbabwe who leads her own band, Stella Chiweshe is in control of her own equipment and transport, an achievement only those, who know under what kind of conditions female musicians normally work in Africa, can truly understand.
		Stella Chiweshe has toured the world extensively since 1983 and has released seven critically acclaimed and internationally successful albums most recently 2002’s Talking Mbira: Spirits of Liberation.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20030531174251570 (526 words)

	Stella Chiweshe - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stella Chiweshe - Stella Chiweshe is the top traditional mbira musician in Africa.
		No wonder she is so revered in her home country where she is called Ambuya Stella Chiweshe as a sign of utmost respect.
		Download, listen and watch Stella Chiweshe music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/stella-chiweshe/3243/main (131 words)

	Stella Chiweshe MP3 Downloads - Stella Chiweshe Music Downloads - Stella Chiweshe Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first disc of Double Check showcases some of the older sounds that influenced the master mbira player, that she played long before taking her instrument to the Western masses.
		Fans of Stella Chiwese's hypnotic style won't be disappointed by her new album, since she delivers plenty more of the same throughout.
		The mix of mbira, or thumb piano, with marimbas, creates a jogging, mesmerizing bed of sound for Chiwese's storytelling Shona vocals, which remain filled with politics.
	www.mp3.com /stella-chiweshe/artists/2716/discography.html (213 words)

	Tune Your World: Stella Chiweshe - Double Free Single!
		Known to the world as “The Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe” Stella Chiweshe is one of the first women to break into the male dominated tradition of mbira.
		Before the Zimbabwe revolution Stella was recognized as a ritual mbira player at secret bira ceremonies hidden from the government.
		With her feet in both worlds and a strong voice everywhere she walks, Stella Chiweshe exemplifies the spirit of Calabash Music.
	calabash.typepad.com /world_music_advocate/2006/03/stella_chiweshe.html (468 words)

	Stella Chiweshe, Susana Baca, and Tish Hinojosa Perform in Global Divas Tour
		Chiweshe is a product of traditional Zimbabwean society, a place where western influence doesn't easily penetrate--and where it is not typical for women to take a front-center role.
		As a girl, Chiweshe had to work hard to find a teacher to show her how to play the mbira, a traditional Zimbabwean finger piano often used in sacred music.
		Though the two countries are neighbors, the music Chiweshe plays is more reminiscent of the griot music of West Africa, some 2700 miles to the north.
	www.frugalfun.com /globaldivas.html (1174 words)

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