Leonard Zhakata
World Music Singer
Zimbabwean musician and singer who writes and performs songs mainly in his native Shona tongue.
He became the youngest Zimbabwean musician to sell more than 100,000 copies of an album by the age of twenty-six.
His 1994 single "Mugove" launched his career.
He is the only boy in a family of seven children.
He and Sam Mtukudzi are both musicians from Zimbabwe.