US-based Zimbabwe musician, songwriter, and producer, Tinashe Sibanda popularly known as Bantu, recently put a new spin on Maroon 5's "One Light" featuring a collaboration with GRAMMY-nominated songwriter BLEU and BET's "Best New Artist" Latto.
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Bantu was the featured artist on the original track from the GRAMMY® Award-winning multi-platinum band's Gold-selling album JORDI. The song was produced by Zim musician and frequent collaborator Philip 'Pip' Kembo popularly known as Dr. Chaii.
His hits "Leaving" and Jackie Chan were notably featured on the FIFA 2019 and 2021 soundtracks.
As a songwriter, recent releases include "Lose Somebody" by Jack G feat. Iann Dior, "Between our Hearts" Cheat Codes x CXLOE, "Whiskey" by Maroon 5 feat A$ap Rocky, as well as "Hey Ma" by J Balvin, Camila Cabello and Pitbull from the "Fast & Furious 8" Soundtrack that was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY. Bantu has upcoming cuts with Fireboy, Mr. Eazi, Becky G, Jonas Blue, Flo Rida, and Maluma.
The world of film and TV placements has taken notice of Bantu, with one of his biggest accomplishments as the GRAMMY-nominated single "Familia" with Nicki Minaj and Anuel Aa. The track was an integral part of the recent animated film, "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse" and it currently holds an impressive 113M+ streams on Spotify. Other past placements include FIFA 2019, "Boomerang" (BET), "Florida Girls" (TV), "On My Block" (Netflix), "Fast & Furious 8" (film), "After We Collided" (film), and "P-Valley" (Starz).