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Pastor Herman Chimusoro of Crossline Music & Video is billed to open the festival this Friday and Mullen is scheduled to perform on Saturday.
Pastor Chimusoro yesterday said the supporting staff for the two groups had already started trickling into Harare.
“The festival is here now and so far we have received some sound engineers for both artistes and more will be coming in before the festival starts on Friday. Tickets are available at Kingdom Bank.
“Michael W. Smith is arriving on Sunday morning from South Africa and then he performs in the evening so he has little time to spend in the country,” he said.
Pastor Chimusoro also urged fans to book their tickets in advance since there won’t be tickets at the gates.
Aileen Nicole Coleman Mullen, but more popularly known as Nicole C. Mullen, is an award-winning singer, songwriter and choreographer. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She recorded her first solo album, “Don’t Let Me Go”, in 1991 with the independent label Frontline Records.
Mullen continued her singing, song writing and choreography career in the 1990s, singing back-up for Michael W. Smith and the Newboys, writing for Jaci Velasquez, and working as a dancer/choreographer with Amy Grant.
She also provided backing vocals for the music video at the end of the Veggie Tales programme and the opening of the Veggie Tales presentation, Larry Boy and the Rumour Weed. Mullen then signed to World Records in 1998 by VP of A&R Brent Bourgeois.
Her fourth album, “Talk About It”, was certified gold for sales in excess of 500 000 copies in 2008.
The curtain will come down on the festival with a performance by Smith.
The Grammy award-winning singer will be performing in Zimbabwe for the first time and it is hoped that fans will come from as far as Botswana, Zambia and South Africa.
This year, the festival is expected to move a notch up as the revered man of song, three- time Grammy winner and platinum seller Smith reaches out to his fans up close and personal.
His biggest success in mainstream music was in 1991 when “Place in this World” hit number six on the Billboard Hot 100. Smith has earned 40 Dove Awards.
Over the course of his career, he sold more than 13 million albums and recorded 29 number one hit songs, 14 gold albums, and five platinum albums.
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