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Stella Chiweshe

Stella Chiweshe is credited on 43 releases across 14 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1986–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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43

Pressings credited

14

Albums

5

Decades active

1

In collections

Biography

Stella Chiweshe (also Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, Mbuya Stella Chiweshe, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe; 8 July 1946 – 20 January 2023) was a Zimbabwean musician. She was known internationally for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. She was one of few female players, and learned to play from 1966 to 1969, when other women did not.

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Credited work

43 releases · 14 albums · active 1986–2025

  • Other credits · 74
  • Performance · 72
  • Engineering · 3

Studios: Sultan Sound Studio · Synthe-Studio Lamrani · Music Factory (11) · Maida Vale Studios

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Stella Rambisai Chiweshe
  • Dissidenten
  • Iva Bittová

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