Top 12 Things You Didn’t Know About Sniper Storm

Sniper Storm is a popular Zim dancehall artist, who started off in 2003 with Kubhinya. Sniper rose to prominence with the humorous, Gede which enjoyed extensive airplay on radio. He could easily fit into the description of the most experienced, yet most underrated artist in Zimbabwe. Storm’s most popular songs include Kwarira Mukati, Luv Yemsoja, Hapana.

Here are the Top twelve things you might not know about him below!

1. Sniper Storm was Born Donald Chirisa on 7 July 1979 in Waterfalls, Harare.

2. Sniper attended Seke 4 High School in Chitungwiza.

3. Sniper’s parents divorced while he was still very young, prompting his grandmother to raise him.

4. Sniper started his musical career during his high school days at Seke 4 High in Chitungwiza.

5. It was however in 1999 that he started to seriously concentrate on music through participating in emceeing battles and similar platforms. He participated in a similar emceeing contest in the same year battling it out with the then legends Major E, Daddy D and Booker T at Live Wire Nightclub.

6. Sniper realized that his full potential was in music and after writing more songs, started performing in clubs.

7. His first single was recorded by legendary Delani Makhalima at Shamiso Entertainment Studios. In the year 2000 he recorded Dem Wanna Know Me a single featured on the Gone Platinum Compilation CD by Mo Vip studios.

8. He also then featured on David Chifunyise’s remix of the hit, Tauya Naye which was on the ground breaking compilation CD album “The Future” by Shamiso Records , which was his second studio recording.

9. The same year, as more local artists emerged, Sniper went on to join Galaxy Records a stable founded by then hottest producer Delani Makhalima in 2002 who had left Shamiso Records.

10. He then released his debut album “Ndakabata mic” in 2009, with the title track making Sniper a household name in the dancehall industry.

11. In 2009, Sniper and Winky D performed at the Zimfest music festival in the United Kingdom. The two courted controversy after allegedly singing a racist song which appeared to attack white people.

12. In 2010, at the Mavado show at the Harare International Conference Centre, he went to the stage where Winky D was preforming and grabbed the mic from him after the latter allegedly performed over his allocated time.