Leonard Dembo

ABOUT LEONARD DEMBO

Zimbabwean musician whose group Barura Express was popular in the 1990s.

He started his musical career in the mid-1980s, scoring a couple of early hits with a group called the Outsiders.

His song "Chitekete" became enormously popular in Zimbabwe and is now a standard wedding song.

He grew up around Chivi in Masvingo, Zimbabwe.

Dembo and Leonard Zhakata both sing in Shona.