Lovemore Majaivana

Majaivana became involved in music through the church his father was a minister of, by singing in the choir. When he was 15, he played drums in a band that became quite popular in his home district of Bulawayo. He went to Harare, shifted gears and took up singing, performing material by such Western artists as Tom Jones and Elvis Presley on the hotel and nightclub circuit. In 1974, he returned to Bulawayo to perform with the Marisha Band. Four years later, he went back to Harare and formed his own band, Jobs Combination, which performed various popular musical idioms. They had...