Sinaubi Zawose & Pamoja - Tanzania

Sina-Ubi Zawose was born in 1995 into the musical dynasty of the Zawose family, which belongs to the Gogo tribe living in and around Dodoma. He learnt music as a traditional dancer and ngoma player at the age of 10 under the guidance of his famous father, legendary Gogo musician Hukwe Ubi Zawose. It was Hukwe who was making roadside music when the newly-appointed president Nyerere was driving around the country in an open car. Nyerere made the car stop, listened to the wonderful music and invited him to start a music school in Bagamoyo on the coast. From then on, the Zawose family became world-famous. Creating bridges connecting past and present generations, Sina-Ubi delivers a new and unique blend of traditional and contemporary Gogo music and dance, with powerful messages sung in Swahili dialects and those of the Gogo tribe.

Sinaubi Zawose, vocals, zeze, ilimba, chilimba
Lucas Ubi Zawose, chizeze, ilimba, vocals
Bahati Zawose, ngoma, percussion, vocals
Bond, bass guitar, percusion
Ally Lumbi, drums

2021 developed a collaboration with Radek Bond Bednarz, musician and producer from Poland, founder of Pamoja Zanzibar, an artistic platform focused on interactions in the East Africa region.

Sina-Ubi plays his father's zeze and joins a brother and a cousin from Hukwe