# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edith-weutonga
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:07:02.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edith-weutonga"
name: "Edith WeUtonga"
slug: "edith-weutonga"
description: "Edith Katiji, known professionally as Edith WeUtonga, is a Zimbabwean Afro jazz and traditional music artist, bass guitarist, songwriter, actress and music teacher. She was born in Kadoma, which lies approximately 166 kilometres (103 mi), by road, southwest of Harare. Being of Malawi origin and growing up in Bulawayo she sings in four different languages mainly Shona, Chichewa, Ndebele and English. Her band is called Utonga which means dawn. She is one of only a few bass guitarists in Zimbabwe who is also a lead vocalist for a band. She also plays the acoustic guitar, mbira and drums."
tagline: "Zimbabwean musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edith_WeUtonga_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1979-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           32.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.401512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_WeUtonga"
    title: "Edith WeUtonga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_WeUtonga"
    title: "Edith WeUtonga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_WeUtonga"
    title: "Edith WeUtonga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_WeUtonga"
    title: "Edith WeUtonga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_WeUtonga"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58810876"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump