Home Archives Zimbabwe: Montana Moves Mountains
Zimbabwe: Montana Moves Mountains
Ernest Kanjo / Monday, 07 June 2010 12:57

MontanaREDo not visit Zimbabwe without requesting to meet and why not watch Q. Montana perform.  Else, you would hate yourself for having missed not only a soul-searching voice, but a dexterous guitarist whose melodious songs provide warmth to the heart.  And if you do have a feel of Montana's music, you would leave Zimbabwe with another African success story on you mind. The Harare-based Afro fusion (inclined to Zimbabwean traditional beats) singer is simple talented.

If talent is what you desire to experience in a young artiste, find it in Q. Montana's Neo Vector, his maiden album released in 2005. Sweet Pain (2007) also reveals the young singer as a thrilling artiste. Upon release of his third album, Untamed last year, Montana became one of Zimbabwe's most-sought-for singers, even by performance poets. At the Harare Internationa Festival of Arts (HIFA) recently, Q. Montana held a poetry café audience spellbound in Batsirai Chimaga's His Song.

But how did all this come about? "I discovered my passion for music at childhood," Montana told TIPTOPSTARS. He went on, "By seven, I was already playing the guitar." He persued his dreams until he saw them come true the day he performed in front of Zambia's independence president Kenneth Kuanda. That was in December 2009.  After the show, broadcast live on Zambian television, Kuanda gave the rising Zimbabwean music star a pat on his back. "I felt proud about that,'' said Montana, proudly.

Q. Montana who also does graphic designing nurses ambitions of becoming a renowned international singer. With a "Six piece band", he shall be touring some Southern African countries including South Africa, Botswana and Zambia. He admires his role models. "There are two - Salif Keita of Mali and Oliver Mtukudi of Zimbabwe,"


Tags

TTS/MTDV ARCHIVES

Ninah’s Dowry does it again, grabs 4 aw…

 Ninah’s Dowry does it again, grabs 4 awards in less than 24hrs

April 2013 will  forever remain fresh in the minds of Cameroonians and particularly lovers of the seven art. At the time we were publishing the most recent article on... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 22 Apr 2013 Hits:8029 Latest

Catch a view of Caught Within

Catch a view of Caught Within

When organizers of the opener edition of the Nollywood and African Film Critics Awards declared last September that Cameroon was fast closing up with Ghana and Nigeria on movie production,... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Comments(1) 20 Feb 2012 Hits:10239 MOVIES

“I was born in music” -Tiana Gasha

“I was born in music” -Tiana Gasha

Based in her native Cameroon, 21- year- old Tiana Gasha shows signs of turning into one of the country’s leading singers, at least in the Afro Acoustic genre, in the... Read more

TTS Be the first to comment! 29 Sep 2012 Hits:89660 INTERVIEWS

Music: Jay Wisley eyeing heroic place

Music: Jay Wisley eyeing heroic place

At 20, Jay Wisley is already bracing to hold the world spellbound, drawing inspiration from Michael Jackson who became a thriller even much earlier. “I have ambitions to do great... Read more

Titus Banyoh Comments(2) 23 Apr 2012 Hits:10466 STAR CORNER

Merlisa Determined on set of movie “CL…

Merlisa Determined on set of movie “CLASH” in Toronto Canada.

The production of the movie “CLASH” has just been completed in Toronto, Canada. The film was directed by Canadian/Nigerian Award-Winning Filmmaker/Actor Pascal and marks the beginning of Nigerian-Canadian collaborations as... Read more

TTS Be the first to comment! 26 Nov 2018 Hits:6296 MOVIES

Women to be honoured at film festival

Women to be honoured at film festival

The seventh art has particularly been favourable to women. Whenever they have gone behind the camera or scenes, the result has been an excellent piece of work. Observers have found... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Comments(2) 29 Feb 2012 Hits:9511 MOVIES

Cameroon gospel band contest: Highlights

Cameroon gospel band contest: Highlights

The gospel band creation project dubbed Gospel musical 2010 is two months old, but the climax is yet to reach. Such climax is certainly when the show will get ongoing... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 10 Nov 2010 Hits:6730 Latest

Book Destined to change Africa/World - …

Book Destined to change Africa/World -  #Helphope 7 Quantum Humanomics

Change will definitely come to those who think positively or are working towards it. The continent of Africa and the world at large might just be benefitting from the expertise... Read more

Titus Banyoh Be the first to comment! 22 Apr 2015 Hits:6943 Latest

Upcoming release: Kei’s Cry to offer joy…

Upcoming release: Kei’s Cry to offer joyous moments

Dust hardly settles so fast on spectacular things. Reason – the strength of spectacle has the propensity to repel it. This logic fits squarely with good music – music... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 04 Apr 2015 Hits:6932 Latest

Goethe Institute to Award Cameroonian Fi…

Goethe Institute to Award Cameroonian Films

Three short Cameroonian films have won a German Cultural Centre organised film Awards. The three emerged from a list of 33 films submitted for the competition. The jury, comprising of... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 03 Dec 2009 Hits:30627 Movies

YIJIKA: DELIGHT AS EMBLEMATIC ACTRESS ST…

YIJIKA: DELIGHT AS EMBLEMATIC ACTRESS STAGES COME-BACK

Between 2005 and 2013 (may fall short of exactitude), Solange Yijika’s face did justice to Cameroonian movies. Not only was this actress every producer’s dream, but she was also the... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 04 Oct 2021 Hits:2991 Latest

⁠⁠⁠Music: D.A markets black values in ne…

⁠⁠⁠Music: D.A markets black values in new single

There is no other medium through which black values can be more highlighted than music. Afro Rap artist, Ngum Daniel Brian aka D.A is not adding his voice in the... Read more

Herman Slim Be the first to comment! 10 Mar 2016 Hits:7483 Latest

African 176 on Apex1Radio

African 176 on Apex1Radio

Claudia Fonguh and performing arts have a longstanding relationship which continues to solidify by the day. Her zeal to explore further into the seventh art flew her to the world's... Read more

TTS Be the first to comment! 14 Apr 2021 Hits:2319 Latest

Yaounde: actors, technicians to be recyc…

Yaounde: actors, technicians to be recycled  *UPDATE*

It sounds like an end-of-year gift! That Cameroonian actors and technicians will have another golden opportunity to improve on their skills and learn new ones is a thing to... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 03 Nov 2012 Hits:6148 Latest

Ifaanas' Jotter

Ifaanas' Jotter

  Rita knows how much I hate dying minute invitations but she keeps sending them. Someone invites you for a party as though they wanted to send off an extra invitation... Read more

Ifaana Qualar Be the first to comment! 03 Aug 2016 Hits:31509 Latest

Cameroonian movies: Captive’s captivatin…

Cameroonian movies: Captive’s captivating story to capture audience

One interesting trait about story writers and filmmakers is that they creep into the minds of people and try to live what the latter are living. Writer/actor Claudio Oben and... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 04 May 2014 Hits:22613 MOVIES

GASHA ON APEX 1 RADIO

GASHA ON APEX 1 RADIO

Any narrative that does not mention Gasha as one of the pioneers of the current phenomenal era of Cameroonian urban music would be wrong.  Her emergence almost seven years... Read more

TTS Be the first to comment! 27 Feb 2018 Hits:6637 Latest

Germany: Cameroonian diaspora life to be…

Germany: Cameroonian diaspora life to be summed up in anticipated TV series

Just like within other Cameroonian communities in the disapora, the one is Germany is a whole story on its own. The lives the people from this great Central African triangle... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 07 Aug 2014 Hits:10029 MOVIES

Diaspora music echoes: Fanfare expected…

 Diaspora music echoes: Fanfare expected at B1 album launch

Africans in the United States who have a penchant for entertainment and Cameroon in particular, with the same taste buds for showbiz, are about now pulling themselves together, ahead of... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 23 Mar 2015 Hits:14672 Latest

Kumba musical trio sets standards

 Kumba musical trio sets standards

Hardly will you ever hear of music in Kumba without the mention of the name RJT. Surely, this is one of K-Town’s most renowned and respected music groups. For the... Read more

Anang Christy Ijang Be the first to comment! 05 Mar 2013 Hits:6591 STAR CORNER

CFI-USA: Newfound bond wins wide attenti…

CFI-USA: Newfound bond wins wide attention

There has been a torrential pour of reactions from members of the Cameroonian film sector and observers after what has generally been termed a successfully organized and impressively attended... Read more

Ernest Kanjo Be the first to comment! 20 Sep 2013 Hits:6645 Latest

418293622 7484176181616363_8241778451874313913_n


LATEST COMMENTS

  • Well, I think the CEA was a very shallow and misgu... More...
  • This is creativity we are talking about, this are ... More...
  • Lovelyn,your pre-selection criterias are ok but i'... More...
  • camhood 4 the better More...
  • fame is gd More...
  • CONGRATULATION. THANK GOD FOR YOU GUYS. CAMEROON S... More...
  • cool girls dat was great but this year we the cons... More...