Zimbabwean music legend Oliver Mutukudzi thrilled thousands of South Africans and tourists who converged to celebrate the annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival last week.
The event, which boasted a big line-up of world renowned jazz performers such as the Soul Brothers, Sergio Mendes, The Manhattans, blind American singer-songwriter Raul Midon and Gerald Albright, was spiced up by Tuku, who wowed the crowd with his musical talents.
Tuku was honoured to be part of the international festival, his drummer and manager Sam Mataure told The Zimbabwean.
We were honoured to be among the world’s best and to perform before such a huge crowd, Mataure said.
When the Cape Town International Jazz Festival was launched nine years ago, around 14,000 jazz fans gathered at the Goodhope Centre in Cape Town. Over the years, the event has grown and now attracts more than 33,000 visitors yearly, priding itself on being Africa’s grandest music gathering.
Rashid Lombard, the CEO of the company that organises the event, told The Zimbabwean from SA: It was our ninth festival. This year we had 40 artists; 20 were African artists and the other 20 from the rest of the world.
The Zimbabwean heard that the fans were thrilled when Tuku performed a duet of hit song Dzoka uyamwe with American crooner Midon.
The event was about celebrating jazz, but it also provided a platform for people to see Cape Town’s beautiful sites, such as the scenic Table Mountain and Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was jailed for 27 years, as well as the various street markets.
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