Three Baba Harare band members have deserted him alleging ill treatment. Drummer Tinashe Chihota, 24 , bassist Kudakwashe Yanika, 26, an...
Three Baba Harare band members have deserted him alleging
ill treatment.
Drummer Tinashe Chihota, 24 , bassist Kudakwashe Yanika,
26, and keyboardist Tafadzwa, 23 have left saying they had had enough.
“Yes, we finally quit Baba Harare’s City Vibration band
during last Extra Mile show with Peter after the inhuman and unprofessional
treatment by his new band manageress, Mama Filo. We were supposed to arrive at
Extra Mile by 12noon, for a show which was to officially start at 5pm, because
we had another show the previous Saturday, we unfortunately arrived at 12:30pm,
that is we delayed by only 30minutes, then Mama Filo said we are going to fire
you again.
“That is when we decided there and there to quit before
being further threatened and humiliated, as it was clear that, the penalty was
just by the corner, tine mhuri.
“We were already unwanted by my friend Bravo (Baba Harare)
because just imagine, I even tried to talk to him. He is a friend who met me at
Macelo Studio and I left Macelo joining him to start his City Vibration band.
“Imagine, all band members surrendered, but I sacrificed
many personal life projects for his talent and band and recorded his first two
albums with him for no cent because taiti tikugadzira chinhu chemumwe wangu who
was going to be with me for good, but he paid a completely deaf ear to my cries
, I became powerless.
“Mama Filo was always after me because of my closeness to
Bravo, often over very pet issues, and she would often say, ‘muchabuda basa,
just over very small issues, most of them funny, she said at Extra Mile, ‘there
are many instrumentalist in Zimbabwe who can play anything’, imagine?”
“At first, I was happy that my friend’s band was there
after having a seasoned manageress, but hey, Mama Filo hates seeing you closer
to the boss, a reason why she was often attacking us.
“Imagine last week she left our keyboardist at Norton shops
where he was waiting for us as a band, he had only gone to the gents after
waiting for a while, when we arrived there, he shouted running from the shops
wailing for our driver to stop for him but Mama Filo ordered the driver to
drive on, leaving him, ndi Momz ehe but umm, some of the strictness is too much
for a human being,” Yanika told H Metro.
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