Happy birthday Tuku!
I can’t remember what year it was. I was at a Tuku concert in the wee hours of the morning.
That infectious Tuku beat was in the air. All around me people were dancing and singing along. The song being performed was all time favourite “Tozeza Baba”.
A group of happy acloholically tipsy women was very enthusiastically chanting their own words to the song.
One of them, a big woman who must have been at least 100kg, suddenly saw someone- a man- she knew, just come into the venue.
She let out an ear piercing scream of joy and bounded across the room to him. He too seemed happy to see her but was not at all prepared for what was about to happen.
The woman leapt off the floor towards him. He instinctively held out his arms but he was like a VW Beetle trying to catch a Gonyet falling from the sky.
He was crushed.
The next thing I knew the two of them were rolling on the floor, struggling to get up.
It is for this and many other happy memories that I feel so much gratitude for Oliver Mtukudzi.
Many thanks Tuku. You are a true son of Zimbabwe.
I wish you a happy happy happy happy happy 56th birthday.
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I also have great memories from Tuku shows. It’s amazing how old and young people alike flock to see him perform. He is a cross generational, cross continental, cross linguistic superstar.
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Thats hilarious. Tuku has really done all of us proud. We must carry the baton too in our own special ways.
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