BULAWAYO - Prominent urban grooves musician, ExQ, has run into a spot of bother when he failed to fulfill terms of an agreement to perform at two pubs in Bulawayo and Victoria Falls last week.ExQ was expected to perform at the Cape to Cairo restaurant in Bulawayo and at Kingdom Hotel in the Victoria Falls resort. He did not pitch up for either of the gigs, arranged by Cape to Cairo entrepreneur Peter Mubhi. Mubhi slammed the urban grooves star for a bad work ethic.
Ex-Q was allegedly been given a down payment of US$195 by Mubhi from the US$350 they had agreed on for the urban grooves star’s brief appearance. He was supposed to get the rest of the cash after the gig.
The singer said he had car touble.
A furious Mubhi said: “I dont know what is wrong with these urban grooves musicians, I had the same problem with Winky D. They complain when we bring foreign acts into the country, but when we try to promote them they always act funny.”
ExQ is one of the stars in a new genre of music in Zimbabwe that is sung by young musicians. Coming on the music scene in the early 2000s, ExQ gained ground because of the 100 per cent local content policy advocated for by former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo. The style of music closely resembles American Rap, Hip Hop, RnB, Soul and other international music genres.
This “imitation” of the West has made urban grooves unpopular with most older listeners.
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