{"id":2950,"date":"2019-02-05T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:22:58","slug":"zimbabwean-music-legend-oliver-mtukudzi-has-died-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/05\/zimbabwean-music-legend-oliver-mtukudzi-has-died-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean music legend Oliver Mtukudzi has died: CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)<\/strong>Oliver Mtukudzi, one of Zimbabwe&#8217;s most celebrated musicians, died Wednesday of an undisclosed ailment, a former colleague has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He has rested. He had been in and out of the hospital since last year when he developed a heart problem,&#8221; Clive Mukundu, a music producer who worked with Mtukudzi, told CNN outside the private medical center where the 66-year-old musician was being treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokeswoman for his record label also confirmed the news to CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caroline Morabe said: &#8220;I can confirm that Oliver Mtukudzi has passed on. The family will release an official statement with more details later today.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The soft-spoken star missed a prize-giving ceremony Tuesday, raising speculation that his illness had taken a toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Popularly known as &#8220;Tuku&#8221; by his fans, Mtukudzi had been successfully performing for decades throughout Africa, as well as in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born into a musical family in 1952, his foot-stomping music has been described as a mixture of Zimbabwean pop style &#8220;jit&#8221; and South African township pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through his distinct sound and inspiring lyrics, he documented the joy and pain of his countrymen who fought for freedom under colonial rule and died for democracy after Zimbabwe&#8217;s independence in 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Where I come from you don&#8217;t get to sing a song if you have nothing to say,&#8221; he said in a 2013 interview with CNN.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)Oliver Mtukudzi, one of Zimbabwe&#8217;s most celebrated musicians, died Wednesday of an undisclosed ailment, a former colleague has said. &#8220;He has rested. He had been in and out of the hospital since last year when he developed a heart problem,&#8221; Clive Mukundu, a music producer who worked with Mtukudzi, told CNN outside the private medical center where the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/05\/zimbabwean-music-legend-oliver-mtukudzi-has-died-cnn\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}