DJ V: Well for me it’s a long story.
It dates back to maybe 10 years ago
when I had a passion for music and
instrument. I had a sound system
so we used to promote bands and
stuff. Then I just, from that culture
of entertaining people, promoting
other people’s shows, I started
deejaying at these shows then I
realised that deejaying could be an
art that I could master myself and
make money out of deejaying. So
my brother KB who is the actual
founder of Shumbatafari, the guy
with the actual concept of
Shumbatafari, the late Tapiwa
LenninTapfumaneyi a.k.a DJ KB.
You know when this guy was in
New Zealand for 10 years he was
jamming all around New Zealand
at festivals and he worked on radio
at Munt FM and then he came
back in 2009.When he came back
we sat down and he said “Let’s
stop this whole promotional thing
with the band because it’s killing
our sound and it’s going down the
drain”, and it wasn’t bringing us
anything although we had a
passion for music and supporting
those people, “we are supposed to
maintain our sound at the end of
the day”, KB. So KB being a dj, a
professional dj, sat me down and
said that we needed to work out
something out making money out
of our own sound. He taught me
professional deejaying and that is
how Shumbatafari bega