Tatenda Chioniso Rushwaya

Tatenda Chioniso Rushwaya is a fun-loving, singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who was born on the 28th of August 1994 and raised in Harare Zimbabwe. She grew up interested in being a musician and entered the Zimbabwe College of Music in 2016, where she studied music theory as a part-time student. With the knowledge of music theory, she learned to play the mbira, acoustic guitar and percussion instruments by herself.

In April 2022 she released a single track titled You Are With Me. She started a female artists training hub called Vasikana Dzidza in April 2022 in addition to her love of performing music, where she teaches mbira, guitar and percussion playing. Currently, the hub is active on Harare's outskirts.

Tatenda recently completed her Music Business course at Music Crossroads Academy, and she launched a social event called Ku-Mbira Lounge which is a platform that promotes inspiring conversations between emerging and seasoned female creatives while telling our stories through mbira music, original musical compositions, poems accompanied by mbira instrument and other forms of story telling. Since the Covid 19 Pandemic she has been giving youngsters private lessons in the mbira and acoustic guitar. She now works part-time as a music instructor at Kufunda Village School.