Lack of resources usually delay completion of projects it inconveniences a lot. Amadhuve Sasha and her management team suffered such a setback on the release of Machinda a song that was inspired by a dream Amadhuve Sasha was walking through dead bodies in a scary forest. This song could have hit the market around September 2019 well before the Covid 19 pandemic. The delay appear a blessing as the song predicted what is happening now.
Listening to the song prompted me to get hold of Amadhuve Sasha to find out if the song had any relationship to the current pandemic. She narrated to me the above. When she composed the song Covid 19 was not yet in existence and life was very normal then. But today we are expected to stay indoors and forsake our work on the pretext of safety.
In shona Sango/Forest is related to daily hustles, the fact that we go out to meet challenges with the expectation of winning is what is referred to as sango. During the ancient eras the livelihood of man was sustained in the forest where he found fruits and meat from beasts that at times are stronger than himself. Amadhuve sings “sango randiremera” meaning my day to day work has become affected and difficult, echoing the current situation where you have to think twice going to work or not because you are afraid to contract the deadly virus.
The most emotional line on the song is the one that describes how people are mercilessly dying, “verudzi rwangu vapera senyama iripamutariro”. The way she calls out to authorities our governments ancestors and God made my tears fall. We have become so powerless because the fight is so complicated. There is no one behind the gun but it’s striking lethally. How do we fight back to stop this pandemic. To most of us in Africa we survive on hand to mouth it’s another pandemic. We can’t go to work yet we have nothing to eat too.
Amadhuve Sasha specializes in traditional beats fused with the modern guitars. She also plays hard-core mbira. Her new album is ready but she is being restricted to release it due to the prohibitive Sango. Though Amadhuve Sasha is optimistic about opportunities in the music industry.
“Music industry like any other sector is full of opportunities, it takes the brave at heart to realise and pursue these opportunities. It has never been prohibitive as many imagine, you need to eat, dream, walk n talk music if you want to make it in the industry because every day thousands of good music is released. Your name must appear on list of good music givers otherwise if you are Lukewarm your chances are doomed”.
Amadhuve Sasha’s ambition is to sing life transforming Music globally. To be a hope giver, to make the hopeless hopeful. She wants to be “sahwira we vanhu murerutsi wendima”, a companion who lessens burdens through music.
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