Machanic Manyeruke: The Life of Zimbabwe's Gospel Music Legend

James Ault's documentary about the Zimbabwean preacher and singer.

Mechanic or Machanic? Beats me. Some use the former and some the latter. Since documentarian James Ault uses the latter in the title of his documentary, let's assume that's correct.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Ault is a documentary filmmaker who focused his lens on one of Zimbabwe's great gospel musicians. That's Machanic Manyeruke, who apparently was given his nickname because he liked to fiddle around with mechanical stuff. He's a preacher and has released a couple dozen albums, many of them as Machanic Manyeruke and the Puritans. I'm accustomed to thinking of gospel music as kind of stodgy, but this is good stuff.

Here's Ault's site for the documentary. If you'd like to stream it here, it's certainly worth a look. Here's the blurb for the documentary:

Called by many the father of gospel music in Zimbabwe, where over 75% of the population are Christians, Machanic Manyeruke’s music has nurtured believers there across denominations for generations now. This intimate story of his life shows the powerful role of popular music in rooting faith in local African cultures, as leading teachers of that subject testify.