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"So I sat down with him and I said you know, what I want us to think about is a name and record new music and in July of that year I was involved in a head-on collision and I was in hospital for a while and then…"
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Edith WeUtongaYou know I remember a DJ saying to me this song wont play and I said w — Edith WeUtonga
"You know I remember a DJ saying to me this song wont play and I said why, because the song called Hutungamiri is questioning and then me saying its moving forward with your people and making sure that you are moving with them because if you dont and you keep walking, one day you look back and find they are gone and the headline in the newspaper, I think it was the Daily News or NewsDay saying the country’s challenges are because of bad governance."
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Edith WeUtonga
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Edith Katiji, known professionally as Edith WeUtonga, is a Zimbabwean Afro jazz and traditional music artist, bass guitarist, songwriter, actress and music teacher. She was born in Kadoma, which lies approximately 166 kilometres (103 mi), by road, southwest of Harare. Being of Malawi origin and growing up in Bulawayo she sings in four different languages mainly Shona, Chichewa, Ndebele and English
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"I think it was in April that I sat down with the music producer and I said ‘Look, I want us to change the name because prior to that I had been in an all-female band called Amakhosikazi and the name was a project name."
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"I think over a month. I was in a coma and the first thing that I saw when I woke up in that hospital bed at Parirenyatwa Hospital was the light coming through the window and thats how the name came about."
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"I think the purpose shifts really because sometimes you are thinking, you know I have got all the time to do the things that I want to do and then realise like that it could be gone."
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"I think it felt like Im not that musician who is going to be favoured in certain spaces or that I shouldnt even look at people liking me."
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"The playing field is not level and so women put in an extra effort for them to be renowned and more is required for opportunities, therefore if one does not have a good support system it is easy for her to be compromised, taken advantage of and still not get paid or get far,"
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