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Melody Debra Mutembo is a Performing Artist who holds Certificates in Music and Audio Engineering with Music Crossroads Academy Zimbabwe whereby she was employed and worked in the Technical Department with the same Academy from 2018 to 2022 . Melody is a multi instrumentalist ,she plays Drums and Percussion .For three years now she has been a drum facilitator at the Music that Matters Camp at Peter House School
She has worked with great Musicians like Habib Koite at a Harare International Festival of Arts Collaboration, worked also with Othnel 'Mangoma' Moyo,Janet Manyowa,Gemma Griffiths,Hope Masike, to mention a few and has also helped in facilitating the building up of some All Female Ensembles namely Vedu Band and Music Crossroads Divas Band the Stilleto Affairs and currently she is playing with a budding Prestige All Female Band and Music According to Percussion.

She joined Music According to Percussion (also known as MAP) in 2017 and has performed at quite a number of festivals including, Miombo Festival , Harare International Festival of Arts, Jacaranda Music Festival ,Lake of Stars Malawi,Musica, Mazibuye Cultural Heritage Expo in South Africa, Let them Arts Schools festival, Harare Carnival, Culture Week ,ZimFest and in schools around Harare
She has also been part of some musical and theatre productions in Zimbabwe,Zimboita ,Bongile We Are, Guruuswa a Sounds of Africa production and Tamba Afrika Mbira production included.

Melody has trained as a Stage Manager at Jacaranda Music Festival 2021 and was part of the stage management team for the festival.In the same year November , she was part of the Gender@work programme by Music In Africa and got trained once again as a Stage manager whereby she worked as part of the stage technical team throughout the ACCESS Festival then May 2023,she was the Stage Manager for UB 40's Zimbabwe tour
To date Melody has had an opportunity to work as the Stage Manager for Ngoma ne Hosho's gigs and Jacaranda Music Festival and it has been a success as she keeps on growing.
She also is one female Beat-maker and producer who took part in the Hip-hop Next Level Academy which took place in Harare Zimbabwe in July 2024.

Her career is passion and love driven and loves so much to work with women, girls, boys and men who find it hard to get an opportunity as such especially those in remote areas. Her dream is to build schools and homes for the vulnerable and pass the knowledge and love for music to the next generations.