Cynthia Mare robbed in vehicle smash and grab
Singer Cynthia Mare was robbed while driving home last night.
“A man smashed the car window and stole handbags with my laptop iPad camera, external hard disks, money and bank cards,” she told Nehanda Radio.
“Got a few tiny cuts on my left hand from the glass and I had tiny bits of glass in my mouth and throat. It’s like dust. I made a police report. I need to get a check up at the hospital as I inhaled the tiny dust size glass particles when I was screaming. Going to see doc for that. I’m traumatized,” she said.
“We need to do something to make our country safer. I blame it on Bad roads, no lightling. Thieves just get away with this. We need to do something. I know over 5 close friends and family who were attacked like this. Some injured.
“One guy was killed last week at the very same spot I was attacked. Since he’s not famous no one will even know about that. How long will we fear for our life when exercising a basic right of freedom to do and travel when you want. As a musician I do perform at night sometimes. Do I not have a right to be safe?” she added.
Cynthia formerly based in the United Kingdom moved to Zimbabwe last year in May so that she can pursue a different direction in her music career.
Ever since the death of her mother in July 2011, Cynthia has reinvented her music, ditching the ‘Not Another Diet’ hip-hop genre to something more Afro-pop and Zimbabwean. Her latest album is called “Songs My Mother Loved”.
In August 2011, Cynthia performed as a curtain raiser for Jamaican dancehall sensation Sean Paul in Bristol at the O2 Academy in the UK. In October the same year she scooped a BEFFTA (Black, Entertainment, Film, Fashion, Television and Arts) Award for ‘Best UK Female Afro/Caribbean Act’.
