Zuhura Othman Soud (born 22 November 1993), better known by her stage name Zuchu, is a

Tanzanian Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

singer and songwriter born in

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. She is based in Dar es Salaam and signed to

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record label. She was awarded the Silver Plaque Button by YouTube for hitting 100,000 subscribers within a week. She became the first East African female artist to reach that milestone within a week. She also became the first East African female artist to reach 1 million subscribers on YouTube 11 months later. In 2020 Zuchu was named by AFRIMMA as the winner of the Emerging Artist Award.

Personal life

Zuchu comes from a musical Swahili Zanzibari family and background. She is a daughter of the revered and famous female Zanzibari

Taarab Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya. It is influenced by the musical traditions of the African Great Lakes, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent. Taarab rose to prominence in 1928 with the advent of the ...

musician Khadija Kopa. Zuchu started singing at a tender age and later collaborated with her mother Khadija Kopa on a song titled "Mauzauza" from her debut EP ''I am Zuchu''. Among her first appearances as a musician to the public date back to 2015 in the first edition of TECNO OWN THE STAGE in

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Discography

Albums

Zuchu released her debut EP album ''I Am Zuchu'' in 2020, with a total of 7 songs. *2020: ''I Am Zuchu''

Singles and collaborations

References

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* * * * Living people People from Dar es Salaam Tanzanian Muslims 21st-century Tanzanian women singers Women singer-songwriters 1993 births Swahili-language singers Tanzanian musicians Tanzanian Bongo Flava musicians {{Tanzania-bio-stub