ROLE MODEL OF THE WEEK- UK BASED MUNYARADZI MICHAEL USUWANA FROM ZIMBABWE- PERFORMANCE SPOKEN WORD ARTIST

Zimbabwean born Spoken Word Artist Munyaradzi Michael Usuwana better known as “ The Wordplay Artist” was born on the 6th of September in 1990 and later moved to London when he was a little older. Thrust into the limelight at a Church conference, Munyaradzi was pulled aside by one of the church leaders who picked up some rhyming, rhthms and acronyms in Munya’s speech asked him if he was a writer and Munya’s reply was an emphatic NO. Munya was then inspired to start writing and sharing his poetry and his first poem ‘Andrew’ was written in 2012 bit was later filmed into a video in early 2014.

He has performed at many other events in various venues across England and is still going for gold . Munya has featured with poems like “Andrew” and “Passes and merits” which all have videos on You tube. He also has several poems which are also yet to be filmed. Munya has featured in a campaign With the Charity Active Horizons where they aimed to address bullying in schools , and this is actually why he wrote the poem ‘ Passes and Merits.’

Since then Wordplay’s talent has granted him access to appearances at high profile events. He got to perform at the Zimbabwean achievers awards Ceremony in May 2014 where he unleashed another one of his “Greats Ashes to Ashes” which talks of the facts of Today’s financial world Another one of his performances was at the Zim link Launch party In London were he featured on stage 3 times on the same night. Munyaradzi also featured at the Face of the Globe and the Miss Zimbabwe Pageant. The Wordplay Spoken Word artist will also be perfoming at Befftas awards ceremony in 2014 and that so far is the biggest event of the all.

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