{"id":30886,"date":"2019-01-28T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30886"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:22:25","slug":"zimbabwe-afro-jazz-star-oliver-mtukudzi-declared-national-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30886","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Afro-jazz star Oliver Mtukudzi declared national hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"73.0231023102\">\n<p>A funeral has been held for Zimbabwean musician Oliver &#8220;Tuku&#8221; Mtukudzi, an Afro-jazz star, who died on Wednesday at the age of 66. According to various reports, the renowned musician passed away at a hospital in Harare, succumbing to diabetes complications.<\/p>\n<p>A legend in the vibrant cross-genre music of Afro-jazz, Mtukudzi released 66 albums in a career that spanned 45 years.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been praised for his positive social and political influences, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/zimbabwe.html\">Zimbabwe<\/a>&#8216;s government declared him a national hero.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Haru Mutasa reports from his home town Madziwa, where a funeral has been held for him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A funeral has been held for Zimbabwean musician Oliver &#8220;Tuku&#8221; Mtukudzi, an Afro-jazz star, who died on Wednesday at the age of 66. According to various reports, the renowned musician passed away at a hospital in Harare, succumbing to diabetes complications. A legend in the vibrant cross-genre music of Afro-jazz, Mtukudzi released 66 albums in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}