Chartwell Shorayi Dutiro started playing mbira when he was four at the protected village, Kagande, about two hours drive from Harare where his family was moved by the Salvation Army missionaries during the Chimurenga. Even though the missionaries had banned traditional music, he learned to play from his brother and other village elders. His mother also encouraged him through her singing of traditional songs. Mbira Dzavadzimu in deze (top), Mbira Nyunga Nyunga (bottom), Hosho (bottom left). ... Map of Zimbabwe with the province highlighted Harare (pronounced , formerly Salisbury) is the capital city of Zimbabwe. ... Chimurenga is a style of music from Zimbabwe. ...

As a teenager Chartwell moved to the capital, Harare, and became saxophonist with the Salvation Army band. A little later, in 1986, he joined the world-famous band Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited. Touring the world for eight years with that band, he was their arranger, mbira player and saxophonist. Since 1994, Chartwell has based himself in Britain where he continues to teach and play mbira. Thomas Mapfumo is a Zimbabwean musician known as The Lion of Zimbabwe for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music. ...

Chartwell has academic qualifications in music, including a degree in Ethnomusicology from SOAS in London where he also taught for many years. Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context, cultural musicology. ... School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (often abbreviated to SOAS) was founded in 1916 primarily as an institution to train British administrators for colonial postings, and has grown into one of the worlds foremost institutions for the study of Asia and Africa. ...

Chartwell's solo album, released in 2000, is entitled 'Voices of Ancestors'. He also has several recordings on CD in which he plays with the band Spirit Talk Mbira: Ndonga Mahwe (1997), Nhimbe (1999), Dzoro (2000), and Taanerimwe.

He currently lives in Ashburton in Devon. He plays in Ashburton's Methodist Church Hall every Tuesday night where he leads a Shona choir made up of local people, from farmers and teachers to business people, not to mention the landlady of the local B&B. In many ways, he has become a Zimbabwean missionary, playing mbira in schools and community halls, creating a space where people can explore cultural differences through the Shona tradition. Ashburton is Ashburton, a town in Canterbury, New Zealand Ashburton, a town in Devon, England Ashburton, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Shona may refer to: Shona people, a Southern African people. ... Tourists of various nationalities chatting over breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City. ...