The video was shot on location in Harare last week. The first location was Glenview 1 bus stop, with a scene where JahPrazah features as a combi driver with NeGitare as a passenger singing to him. The second was in Domboshava, and depicts a scene with NeGitare and her friends hanging out as contemporary African women.
NeGitare said she chose the kombi scene because she wanted something that every Zimbabwean could relate to.
She will launch the video, the first since she started her musical career in 2005, at the end of this month at the Book Café. She debuted at the same venue when she first played her guitar at the open mic session.
Wildfire is a song on her first album, released last year, which according to Tariro did not do as well as she expected on the airwaves but was a hit at live performances.
“When I recorded my first album, the song Uripi (where are you?) did well on radio and I think it’s because it resonates with a lot of women asking that question of their men. However, the song that is a hit during my live shows, Wildfire, was not as popular on radio and I decided to rerecord it as a live version and then shoot a video for it,” she said.
Renowned filmmaker of Pah Chihera Productions, Marion Kunonga, is the brains behind the music video production.
“I have seen the work she has done on a variety of music videos for a number of local musicians and when I saw the one she produced for Victor Kunonga, Marion did it for me”, said NeGitare, who has previously worked with Edith WeUtonga.
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