{"id":406140,"date":"2011-04-29T03:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T03:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/tuku-launches-his-59th-album-tonight\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T03:32:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T03:32:20","slug":"tuku-launches-his-59th-album-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/tuku-launches-his-59th-album-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuku Launches His 59th Album Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.2862453532\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald.co.zw\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/a47391c0herald180.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"The Herald (Harare)\" title=\"Visit The Herald (Harare)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>28 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, who is turning 59 in September, will celebrate his birthday early with the launch of his 59th album tonight at the Harare International Conference Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The album, titled &#8220;Rudaviro&#8221;, was due for release last year but was put on ice after Mtukudzi or simply Tuku to his adoring fans chose to release &#8220;Cheziya&#8221; by his late son Sam.<\/p>\n<p>The late Sam Mtukudzi died in a car crash in Harare and was buried side by side his with childhood friend Owen Chimhare at Warren Hills Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The death threw Tuku into mourning and he was forced to suspend his annual birthday celebrations to this year where he is expected to throw a big party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rudaviro&#8221; is expected to hit record stores today while tickets to the gig will be available at the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd Mutamba, Tuku&#8217;s publicist, could neither deny nor confirm the album launch.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, promised a big surprise at the gig tonight and urged fans to attend in their numbers.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104290083.html\" title=\"Tuku Launches His 59th Album Tonight\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuku Launches His 59th Album Tonight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 28 April 2011 Superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, who is turning 59 in September, will celebrate his birthday early with the launch of his 59th album tonight at the Harare International Conference Centre. The album, titled &#8220;Rudaviro&#8221;, was due for release last year but was put on ice after Mtukudzi or simply Tuku to his adoring fans chose to release &#8220;Cheziya&#8221; by his late son Sam. The late Sam Mtukudzi died in a car crash in Harare and was buried side by side his with childhood friend Owen Chimhare at Warren Hills Cemetery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":406141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tuku Launches His 59th Album Tonight - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/tuku-launches-his-59th-album-tonight\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tuku Launches His 59th Album Tonight - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"28 April 2011 Superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, who is turning 59 in September, will celebrate his birthday early with the launch of his 59th album tonight at the Harare International Conference Centre. 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