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| Late Cephas Mashakada |
Sounds of the Muddy Face was a force to reckon with when Cephas Mashakada was still alive. The band churned many hit songs that rocked Harare such as Samson, Kunamata Ndaida and many others. Cephas Mashakada rose to fame with his hit song Nherera which was like a national anthem during the eighties.
News coming through the grapevine is that the band that Mashakada left is slowly disintegrating due to internal squables, which has of late affected the late Tongai Moyo's Utakataka Express.
Shemu Chibage the current band leader was quoted as saying' I am glad we are past the troubles and we have since replaced the drummer Washington Mendi, bassist Craig Nhekairo and lead guitarist and vocalist Eliah Moffat, who decided to leave the band after Mashakadas death.
Mashonganyika said only three of the original band members had remained and they held auditions to replace those who left the band. They recruited five people to make up an eight-member outfit. He said the three, who left the group in December, claimed it would never survive without the late Mashakada, but that was proved not to be true.
We are currently working on an untitled six-track album that he did before his death and we are just polishing it up for release on a date to be announced soon, he said.
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