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Chiwoniso Maraire
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Vinony files it under 1976 births, 2013 deaths and 20th-century Zimbabwean women singers.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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Chiwoniso Maraire was a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter, and exponent of Zimbabwean mbira music. She was the daughter of Zimbabwean mbira master and teacher Dumisani Maraire. Born in 1976 in Olympia, Washington, where her father had moved his family, the song bird spent the first seven years of her life in the US. She spent a portion of her high school years attending The Northwest School in Seattle, Washington. When she moved back to Zimbabwe she attended Mutare Girls' High School and took even
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Zimbabwe
- Place of birth
- Olympia
- Place of death
- Chitungwiza
- Father
- Dumisani Maraire
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Educated at
- Northwest School
- Field of work
- music composing
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Chiwoniso.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1976-03-05
- date of death
- 2013-07-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- Commons category
- Chiwoniso Maraire
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