Enjoy Some of Machanic Manyeruke’s songs in music videos subtitled in English.
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Machanic Manyeruke’s classic song, “Josefa,” originally included in his album Ari Mandiri in 1994, remixed again and again and recorded in 2018 with his band shown here in footage shot for our film on Machanic’s life and music. This wildly popular song, remixed again and again, points to the important role Baba (“Father”) Manyeruke played as mentor, uncle or father figure, to young men he encountered in life, as seen in our documentary film about his life and work online above.
Probably the most popular song by Machanic Manyeruke, Zimbabwe’s gospel music legend, remixed again and again over his lifetime, and immmensely popular across denominations in Zimbabwe’s majority Christian country. MUSIC: an early original recording by Machanic Manyeruke and the Puritans IMAGES: From footage shot of his remix of this song, performed with his band in their recording session of it, filmed in 2018 for our documentary on Machanic Manyeruke’s life and music
Music video of Machanic Manyeruke’s song, Jesu Wamuka (“Jesus Has Risen”) — about Mary and others going to Jesus’ grave to bathe his body with oil, only to find his body gone, and to learn, “He has risen!” English subtitles of Shona lyrics and images of this biblical story added. Filmed as performed by Machanic Manyeruke and his band at the Hope for Zimbabwe concert for our documentary film on his life and work.
Music video of “Vakandichengeta Amai” (“My Mother Kept Me”)– about Machanic’s premature birth. As part of producing this film, I, the producer/director, Jim Ault, asked Machanic to compose a song about his life, if he felt like it, for the CD we’d film him and his music team recording for this documentary. I thought he would focus on his father’s dying when he was just 13, forcing him to leave school and go to the city to find work, all of which I wanted portray in our film about his life. Instead, Machanic was moved to compose this new song: about his having been born premature and, as a result, might well have been killed, like many such babies in Zimbabwe back then, his wife Hellenah vividly recalls. But, his parents wouldn’t allow it, and,”my mother kept me,” he sings, as we filmed them recording that day. And then he was raised in a loving family to be the person he is today. This led us during production to film the journey with him, his wife Hellenah, and his two older sisters, to go find and see where he had been born, and where they had grown up together (and filmed fun stories of their childhood we filmed them sharing that day!) It was on huge still white-owned farm, where now not even remnants of their old homes could be found, though their memories of the stone hill, trees and where memorable events occurred back then, all came back vividly. And we also filmed Machanic and his young and oh-so-talented music team recording this new song, along with remixed classic hits of his, for their new album, “Dzokororo.” During that day we filmed many of their exchanges and conversations around issues that came up during their impressive recording work together . . . and how they dealt with them. Just pieces of such conversations appear in our film online below, though much of the total footage would likely be of interest to scholars of music. The movie can be watched online here: https://jamesault.com/documentaries/machanic-manyeruke/
Probably the most popular song by Machanic Manyeruke, Zimbabwe’s gospel music legend, remixed again and again over his lifetime, and immmensely popular across denominations in Zimbabwe’s majority Christian world. REMIXED in 2018-with footage shot of the band’s recording session then for our documentary feature of Machanic’s life and work.