Katiji shines at Global stage

rising music star Edith Katiji being one of the major acts.
The self-taught bassist and vocalist who is one of the country’s rising vocalists has always held audiences spellbound with her vibrant rhythms that are steeped in traditional Zimbabwean music.
Edith and her Utonga Band left lasting impressions when they presented the “Kwacha” dance among other new stuff.
Edith fuses traditional music based on Chimurenga, jiti and Shona folkore with contemporary influences to create a hybrid of a beat that is uniquely her trademark.
She played songs off her album ‘Utonga while T-Shirts, in brown, orange and black will be available at the show and throughout the festival at the Povo Stand in the Global Quarter.
Edith’s story is phenomenal. Starting off as a theatre actress, where she featured in various plays some of which were staged at Theatre in the Park in Harare apart from touring around the country,
A graduate of Amakhosi Theatre School in Bulawayo, Katiji then formed the music group So What with fellow female musicians.
That was in 1998, but she later decided to change it to Utonga after the horrific car crash that she was involved in the same year.
“Utonga means break of dawn, and this is reference to the way that I survived,” said Edith.