Stella Chiweshe (also known as Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe) was born in Mujumi Village, Mhondoro, on November 8, 1946.
She is internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
Stella Chiweshe is one of the few female players of the instrument, which she learned to play in the mid-1960s when even fewer females played the instrument.
In 1989, Stella Chiweshe starred in I Am the Future, a Godwin Mawuru film about a young woman who travels to the big city to escape Zimbabwe's independence war in the rural areas.
