Mercy Mutsvene

Mercy Mutsvene is a female gospel singer from Zimbabwe. She attended Highfield 2 High School in Harare. Her career in music began in early 2000. Her father is a Pastor at Apostolic Faith Mission. Back then, she would sing in church with the choir. This prompted her to take music as a career when her ex-husband Simbarashe Ngwenya referred her to veteran gospel singer Pastor Elias Musakwa. Musakwa took her in and created a Zimbabwean Rebecca Malope.

In the early days, Mercy made people believe that there was a working relationship between her and Rebecca. She claimed too that Rebecca knew about her music since some of it was recorded in SA. She kept on dismissing the accusations citing that Malope had given her green light to record music that is similar to hers. It became clear that she was lying when Malope toured the country. The SA gospel singer dismissed the claims as lies citing that she didn’t know her. Some of Mercy’s songs such as ‘Handingabvumi’ and ‘Muri Mutsvene’ are direct translations of Malope’s songs ‘Mangingavumi’ and ‘Ulilanga Lelanga’.

She has however released songs that are attributed to her name. Some the songs are ‘Ndinovimba Nemi’, ‘Tichasanganiswa’, ‘Zano’, ‘Kedenga’, ‘Ndinonamatira’ and many more. Mercy has been silent for a long time with reports citing that her marriage problems are a major setback to her music. In July 2014, she temporarily bounced back into the limelight with performances at the first edition of the Eaglesvale Schools Concert scheduled for 7 Arts Theatre.