Gift Musarurwa is a well rounded musician who was exposed from birth to the Blues and Jazz musical art-form
At the tender age of twelve he taught himself to play the Piano acquiring recognition and membership of the Galaxy Musical Club through which he peformed at various Pop festivals. Gift founded his first Band “Scorpio Brothers” in 1967. By 1970 he started “The Rose Folk and Blues Club” jamming with various touring international artists including Suzane “Soupy” Pierson, from Denver, Colorado, John Philips, Dave Greenwood and Benny Miller of the Otisway Good Blues Band.
The Boogie Woogie storm did not spare Gift Musarurwa when it swept through the world.
Gift is brother to the late jazz veteran August, whose Cold Storage Sweet Rhythm Band featured Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong in August Musarurwa’s ever green Skokiaan song which was a hit world wide.
Skokiaan is one of world's most recorded tunes with dirrent musicians from varios countries giving their own renditiomn of of the s
