An Exclusive Insight: Interview with Renowned Artist Living Abroad Miles Matunya

Exclusive interview with Miles Matunya

In the ever-evolving world of art, unique voices and perspectives often emerge from unexpected places. Today, we are thrilled to present an exclusive interview with a Spoken word artist MILES MATUNYA, who has taken his creativity across borders and is currently residing abroad. His work, which blurs the lines between traditional and contemporary forms, speaks volumes about their journey and philosophy as an artist.

1.How has it been, being a Zimbabwean artist abroad

Its been nice, it opens a lot of opportunities, there are more resources here, affordable internet, equipment and networking opportunities.

2. What do you like to do on your free time ?

I like to do a lot of crazy stuff, l write random poems, songs, film scripts, content ideas and stuff, l also listen to music and watch films on Netflix.

3. What made you fall in love with music and poetry?

Brief history: l fell in love with music and poetry when l was 4 years old, l lived with people that were tapped in pop culture and entertainment, my siblings....

They introduced me to Beyonce, Ciara , 50Cents , so l fell in love with Beyonce music 1st en’ Neyo so that’s wen l fell in love with music and poetry ..

4. Who would you want to work with locally and internationally ?

Locally l have worked with everyone l wanted to work with

And now am focusing on the international ones. Internationally, l would like to work with Doja Cat, Sabrina Carpentry ....

5. What is your favorite local fashion brand?

My favorite local fashion brand is SVG street wear, but l also wanna try the HypeX Apparel, it looks cool.

6. Who are your top three favorite artist ?

Without any specific order, l would say Takura, Holy Ten and Jah prayzah

7. Being a Zimbabwean president for 1week, what changes would you make in the entertainment industry?

The 1st the l would do is to avail funds to the upcoming creatives so that they boost their carriers so they get to live their dreams and l would also foster collaborations between local creatives and international organizations and creative companies .

8. How do you feel about the current state of the Zim Hiphop industry ?

I think it is in a good place, considering the fact that there are people Holy Ten, saintfloew, Voltz Jt , bling4 , the ocd crew, Crooger , Sunh, Denim Woods, Bagga, Kayflow, Sane.wav …. They are lots of rappers now in Zimbabwe including females like Young Gemini, lane , kikkybadass, and so on……..so l few like its in a really good place and its very very promising

9. Tell us about your upcoming project

l have an upcoming hip-hop spoken album coming out on the 30th of august 2025, to be available on Spotify, audio mark , YouTube on miles matunya , so the star album is a low fie hiphop spoken word album with a mixture of poetry, hiphop/rap, so l have collaborated with

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