By Kennedy Nyavaya
Musician-cum-nude art model Vimbai Zimuto (pictured) says she is overly pleased that the plan to use nudes as a way of growing her brand has started paying off.
Zimuto’s pictures in her “birthday suit” have attracted attention and criticism in equal proportions.
Speaking to Standard Style after a spirited performance on the Shoko Festival stage in Chitungwiza last Sunday, the mother of two disclosed that nudity has been a brand advertising gimmick giving her major visibility.
“The thing is nudity is part of art and if you are an artiste or any other brand, it’s important to find things that make people have attention on you,” said Zimuto
“People need to follow you and understand your art, so when I do my nude art it is not attention-seeking or hustling for followers, but it is attention-seeking just like any other business.”
The Netherlands-based artiste has, in recent months, had to commute between Europe and Harare as a result of demand for her presence back home and last weekend she was part of the headline acts for Shoko’s Peace in the Hood programme.
“It is good that that side of art of mine brought me here (to Shoko Festival) and that people are loving it, some do not, but it’s okay you cannot have everyone loving you,” she said.
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While critics have continued to throw brickbats, Zimuto has pledged to stay resolute.
“I am never going to change and I do not regret anything. I did not lose any morality, Iam still the same Vimbai, my people love me just the way I am and I am respected by the same people who respected me before. I speak with my confidence on everything that I do,” she said.
“I want people to understand that I am a versatile artiste…my whole head is full of art, so I try to make people understand that when I’m doing a particular art I’m doing just that, so there is a difference and people need to understand that.”
