By Phillip Mudzidzi Oliver Mtukudzi (Tuku) was born 22 September in 1952 and died on the 23rd of January 2019 aged 66 and armed with 66 music albums carrying many songs whose main recital was on how people can coexist peacefully and progressively. He was affectionately known as “Tuku” by his fans and a cough… Read more »
Category: World
West Bank Story
In 2005 a short film debuted taking one of the hottest conflicts in the world and bringing a message of peace and hope through a musical comedy. The plan for West Bank Story as a take-off of the classic musical “West Side Story” sounds like a recipe for disaster. Two competing falafel stands, Kosher King… Read more »
Bob Marley
There may be no other musician as well known around the world as Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae singer. With his band The Wailers, Marley’s music took themes of jubilation and liberation with spiritual centeredness to almost every corner of the globe. He died at 36 from a form of melanoma, continuing his music and… Read more »
Jec Dan Borlado
There are many peacemaking musicians who haven’t gained fame and fortune as entertainers but who have poured the passions into song. Their music is often the heartbeat of grassroots movements for justice, peace, and human rights. One such activist musician is Jec Dan Borlado from the Philippines, and one of our Peace Warriors. In 2012… Read more »
Arn Chorn-Pond
Arn Chorn-Pond survived the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in part through music. Now he uses music as a means of peacemaking and trauma healing, both personally and for his country. Raised in a family centered in Cambodian opera, when the Khmer Rouge came to power he was taken away from… Read more »