By Dalphine Tagwireyi
Popular Zimbabwean dance-hall musician Wallace Chirumiko, known as “Winky D”, is alleged to be in hiding after his Eureka album launch held in Harare on New Year’s Eve.
The dance-hall music maestro’s music identifies with the everyday struggles of Zimbabwean youths and sings against social injustice, corruption, and looting.
It is alleged that a few featured songs on his new album take aim at the ZANU-PF led government, as they depict the injustices suffered by the youth.
However, his manager has refuted claims that the musician is in hiding.
“Winky D is not a politician but a social commentator. His music is just pure art and people should analyse it the way they want,” said Jonathan Banda in an interview with Scrolla.Africa.
Banda said Winky D comments on what he sees happening in society and depicts it through song.
“People see things differently, and we can’t control what they think, therefore it’s always up to them, they see what they want to see in his music,” he explains.
However, ZANU-PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi has blasted Winky D’s collaborations — alleging that it was a ploy to destroy upcoming musicians’ careers.
“This was a scam to destroy careers through clandestine recruitment into a set agenda. The artists were made to drop their lyrics separately before Winky D brought his own twisted version, attaching them to theirs,” he says.
The music maestro has earlier suffered media blackout from state-owned radio stations with an album he released earlier in 2019 after a government directive.
The album featured a song named “Ijipita” loosely translated to Egypt depicting the Biblical story of the oppression suffered by Israelites which is similar to the Zimbabwean struggle.
Pictured above: Winky D
Picture source: Winky D Facebook page
