Zuchu

Zuhura Othman Soud, professionally known as Zuchu, is a Tanzanian singer and songwriter born in Zanzibar on 22 November 1990. She is based in Dar es Salaam and signed to WCB Wasafi record label. Zuchu comes from a musical Swahili Zanzibari family and background, as her mother is the famous Zanzibari Taarab musician Khadija Kopa.

Zuchu started singing at a young age and gained recognition after collaborating with her mother Khadija Kopa on the song “Mauzauza” from her debut EP, I Am Zuchu. Among her first appearances as a musician to the public date back to 2015 in the first edition of TECNO OWN THE STAGE in Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2020, Zuchu was awarded the Silver Plaque Button by YouTube for hitting 100,000 subscribers within a week, becoming the first East African female artist to reach that milestone within a week. She also became the first East African female artist to reach 1 million subscribers on YouTube 11 months later. In the same year, Zuchu was named by AFRIMMA as the winner of the Emerging Artist Award.