By Kennedy Nyavaya
The late Afro-jazz musician Oliver Mtukudzi would have smiled watching his daughter Selmor unleashing an electric performance on Friday night as she launched her sixth album, Dehwe Renzou.
Since Mtukudzi’s passing in January last year, Selmor has spent most of her time doing tribute shows in respect of the legendary crooner and she appears to be ready now more than ever to sustain the colossal legacy left in her hands.
During her slot at the show, she kept the decent audience in attendance entertained as she neatly weaved through a mixed playlist drawn from both her catalogue and that of her father.
The performance next to her father’s right handman of many years and former band member, Piki, former Black Spirits guitarist Never Mpofu, her sibling Sandra, husband Tendai Manatsa and the band gave a déjà vu feeling to many. It felt like a reincarnation of Tuku.
“I was nervous wondering whether people would like the music so I think at the end of the day I am glad and I am humbled by the attendance, it’s wonderful,” Selmor told the media after her set.
She had successfully carried out a personal mission and quenched the thirst of both her fans and her father’s judging by the crowd’s reaction.
“I feel it’s my responsibility to make sure that his (Mtukudzi’s) name does not disappear, I feel that’s my job, that’s why I am here, so I am going to do my best to make his music live on,” she said.
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Meanwhile, Selmor described the eleven track on the album produced by the veteran Steve Dyer at his Dyer Tribe Studios in South Africa as a tribute to Mtukudzi and to make sure that his music lives on.
“The concept (of the album) is derived from that when an animal is killed people eat everything except the skin and it (the skin) will always remain as a reminder that there was an animal like that. So for me I am just here to remind people of a great man who was Oliver Mtukudzi,”Selmor said.
