{"id":2608,"date":"2019-01-27T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2019-01-27T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T15:33:10","slug":"emotional-scenes-as-thousands-throng-tuku-memorial-gig-picture-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/emotional-scenes-as-thousands-throng-tuku-memorial-gig-picture-story","title":{"rendered":"Emotional scenes as thousands throng Tuku memorial gig (picture story)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THOUSANDS of music fans thronged the National Sports Stadium Saturday to celebrate the life of late music legend Oliver \u201cTuku\u201d Mtukudzi.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Tuku Memorial Concert, the event was organised by Zimbabwean music promoters and featured both old and young local artists who have illuminated the country\u2019s music scene.<\/p>\n<p>Mtukudzi, who succumbed to a heart related ailment aged 66 Wednesday, was later declared a national hero by government, becoming the first ever musician in the history of post-independence Zimbabwe to be given the highest honour of the land.<\/p>\n<p>He will be laid to rest Sunday afternoon at his rural Madziwa home, Mt Darwin, in Mashonaland Central province.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Aleck-Macheso-front-and-Somandla-Ndebele-grieving-the-late-Oliver-Mtukudzi-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Aleck-Macheso-front-and-Somandla-Ndebele-grieving-the-late-Oliver-Mtukudzi-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Aleck-Macheso-front-and-Somandla-Ndebele-grieving-the-late-Oliver-Mtukudzi-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Aleck-Macheso-front-and-Somandla-Ndebele-grieving-the-late-Oliver-Mtukudzi-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Aleck-Macheso-front-and-Somandla-Ndebele-grieving-the-late-Oliver-Mtukudzi-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Aleck-Macheso-front-and-Somandla-Ndebele-grieving-the-late-Oliver-Mtukudzi.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"jVATDAdi\">\n<div class=\"in-post-div\">\n<p>Below are images captured during the Tuku music concert.<\/p>\n<p>All images by Idah Mhetu<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Nyaradzo-Group-chief-executive-Philip-Mataranyika-driving-the-Body-into-the-National-Sports-Stadium-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Nyaradzo-Group-chief-executive-Philip-Mataranyika-driving-the-Body-into-the-National-Sports-Stadium-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Nyaradzo-Group-chief-executive-Philip-Mataranyika-driving-the-Body-into-the-National-Sports-Stadium-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Nyaradzo-Group-chief-executive-Philip-Mataranyika-driving-the-Body-into-the-National-Sports-Stadium-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Nyaradzo-Group-chief-executive-Philip-Mataranyika-driving-the-Body-into-the-National-Sports-Stadium-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Nyaradzo-Group-chief-executive-Philip-Mataranyika-driving-the-Body-into-the-National-Sports-Stadium.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOUSANDS of music fans thronged the National Sports Stadium Saturday to celebrate the life of late music legend Oliver \u201cTuku\u201d Mtukudzi. Dubbed Tuku Memorial Concert, the event was organised by Zimbabwean music promoters and featured both old and young local artists who have illuminated the country\u2019s music scene. Mtukudzi, who succumbed to a heart related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,11],"tags":[22,191,47],"class_list":{"0":"post-2608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-photo","11":"tag-art","12":"tag-culture-and-art","13":"tag-music"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Emotional scenes as thousands throng Tuku memorial gig (picture story) - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/emotional-scenes-as-thousands-throng-tuku-memorial-gig-picture-story\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Emotional scenes as thousands throng Tuku memorial gig (picture story)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THOUSANDS of music fans thronged the National Sports Stadium Saturday to celebrate the life of late music legend Oliver \u201cTuku\u201d Mtukudzi. 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