Johannesburg -Internationally-renowned mbira artist, Chiwoniso Maraire is set to wow South African music lovers during her homecoming tour scheduled to start on Saturday evening. The loveable songstress will, together with a prominent United Sates based saxophonist, perform at the annual African Synergy Concert at Bassline in Newtown, Johannesburg.

“Zimbabwe’s world acclaimed mbira singer Chiwoniso will perform on her homecoming tour with New York jazz sax Max Wild,” organizers told The Zimbabwean. Are priced Chiwoniso is Zimbabwe’s reigning mbira queen. She has record three chart-topping albums, Ancient Voices (2000), Timeless (2004) and Rebel Woman (2008).

While Zimbabwe's ancient musical traditions serve as the foundation of her music, she is the child of a globalized world and her songs reflect her diverse, multicultural influences. Her late father, Dumisani Maraire was a respected scholar and musician, who moved the family to the United States in the 1970s while pursuing a degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Chiwoniso was born in Olympia, Washington in 1976, and although she spent the first seven years of her life away from Zimbabwe, the music of her family's homeland was a constant presence