The musician was largely regarded as a camera-shy person and only released two videos throughout his career but his sons have decided to make public some of the videos that were shot while their father was on stage.
Morgan and Tendai, who have taken after their father in music, said the videos would be released concurrently with their debut album that is expected in April.
Dembo’s brother Maxwell Tandare who shot the videos said they had been waiting for the most appropriate time to release the videos and the launch of Tendai and Morgan’s album would be the best opportunity to unleash the videos.
“My brother always wanted to take his time in doing things and it was against his idea to rush and release the videos.
“We sat down as a family and agreed that this year would be the best to release the videos since his sons have taken up from where he left musically,” Tandare said.
The release of the videos will be accompanied by shows in Harare, Chinhoyi and Gweru. Tandare said some of the scenes from the videos would be incorporated to Morgan and Tendai’s video album for their debut release.
“We will also pick some scenes and add them to the boys’ video album.
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“There are also family videos, shot when he was not on stage, that we want to include on Morgan and Tendai’s videos as a way of ushering them into the path that their father travelled.”
There was chaos when the late Nevermay Chinyanga tried to shoot one of Dembo’s videos with the latter’s family strongly opposing the idea.Tandare said the video album would include most of Dembo’s popular songs.
Dembo had only released videos to songs Sharai and Maneja at the time of his death.
Some of the popular songs that fans would be looking forward to, on the video album, include Chitekete, Zii Zii and Vhenenzia.
Morgan and Tendai scoffed at the rumour that they had split saying the information had come from jealous people that wanted to see them part ways.“We were surprised to learn that some people are going around spreading such falsehoods.
“We have never had any professional differences although many people have been trying to separate us,” Tendai said.
“There are people who come pretending to be interested in sponsoring us, only to realise that they have ulterior motives.
“We have had instances when people approach us individually and try to convince us that we can do better through solo careers but we will never listen to such destructive advice,” Morgan said.
The Dembo brothers have been holding shows in and outside Harare.
They have performed alongside Alick Macheso, Suluman Chimbetu and Tongai Moyo among others.
The duo hugely credits Macheso for mentoring them saying he has played a fatherly role since they took up music.
“We look up to him as a father. We have come this far in music because of him and there is nothing we do without consulting him.”
