By Shepherd Mutamba
HARARE - Tuku is known as a philanthropist who has dedicated his life to foster positive social change through art and continues using music to enhance his humanitarian work.
Diabetics are amongst his many charitable responsibilities to whom Tuku has pledged support to help make the condition - a major killer worldwide - more manageable. Tuku himself is diabetic.
Thursday 20th May, 2010 is one of the special nights when Tuku and The Black Spirits join an events management company, Events By Vertigo, at a dinner concert that is expected to raise invaluable support for the Zimbabwe Diabetics Association.
It is not always that Tuku performs for diners, which puts this concert in a class of its own. This one is up-close with Tuku, intimate and above all for a worthy cause. We can’t even talk about the accompanying exquisite environment and ambience of the Great Indaba of the Crowne Plaza Monomotapa where we are partying.
Yet that is not all. The dinner and concert is among the very last performances by Tuku before he takes leave from public shows, this end of May, for his annual regional and international sojourn until September. All the reason why you can’t miss this one.
Because the dinner is not the day-to-day show it would appeal even much, much more to those who have always stayed away from Tuku’s more public performances for personal reasons to do with privacy, maybe. Now this one is strictly for YOU – what you ordered of sorts.
At the end of the day when the music has stopped and the dinner is done it is the gratifying feeling that you have contributed in raising critical support for needy diabetics.
For a modest $45 per head you enjoy a special menu for your dinner while Tuku and The Black Spirits perform mellow for you before the full dance party with the band after dinner.
Early this year Tuku and his wife Daisy visited diabetics at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital where he met people of all ages battling diabetes - the young ones, teenagers and adults alike – who made a passionate appeal for assistance to secure glucometres and strips used to monitor blood sugar levels and medication all of which are way out of the reach of many.
Please come and join us for the special evening and help many of those whose lives we can change positively.
See box office details below and file pictures of Tuku meeting diabetics in Chinhoyi. – tukumusik.com

Exclusive Dinner & Diabetics Show.

Daisy Mtukudzi hands out fruits to a young diabetic at Chinhoyi Hospital during a visit accompanying her husband Tuku.

Tuku visiting diabetics at Chinhoyi Hospital.