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Our music is both medicine and food, as mbira has the power to heal and to provide for people.

— Musekiwa Chingodza

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Yes. He has the spirits of , one of old nature spirits. The spirit is brother of and totem is .

My father play the mbira for so many spirits.

Yes, he speaks to me like “I am Chingodza. I just need the mbira.” and then my parents bought me the mbira from in 20 cents.

I bought both of them from eBay. I can't sell them, I will keep them.

My grandfather always said “when you playing skill is same as my father's When I play just it comes, I don't remember. Even though I thought “Ahh I like this part what I sang!”, it doesn't come back to me. But these parts always come.

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