25 Responses to “friday afternoon fun: natural hair indie rocker Shingai Elizabeth Maria Shoniwa”

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   andrea 12 June 2009 at 1:42 pm Permalink

   loving her style

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   LoloBloggs 12 June 2009 at 2:23 pm Permalink

   The Noisettes are huge in the UK right now. I have their album and she is my current hair idol!

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   analog_girl 12 June 2009 at 3:04 pm Permalink

   Shingai's hair and style are DOPE! I've been a fan of the Noisettes for some time and I love the unique look she brings to the indie-rock landscape. It's always nice to see black women in rock…lord knows we — and blacks in general — are still not as prevalent as we should be in the rock music arena, which is sad considering we pioneered the genre.

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   utamaduniwear 12 June 2009 at 3:19 pm Permalink

   her look screams dopeness to the 100th degree al be checking her out

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   utamaduniwear 12 June 2009 at 3:33 pm Permalink

   her look screams dopeness to the 100th degree al be checking her out

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   Anonymous 12 June 2009 at 3:48 pm Permalink

   kewl! the noisettes rock! afro-punkers rock! for info on the documentary and a community of afro-punkers including natural hair-dread-and-funky-twisting-fro-hawk-rocking and psychedelic-color-doing black people outside of the proverbial "box": you and your readers who may be interested can check out http://www.afropunk.com

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   Tanaka-Africa 12 June 2009 at 4:01 pm Permalink

   I love her style she got me into that type of music,she my fave celeb natural after janelle monae. They were quite big for a while here in England.lol and I'm shona it's a southern african language spoken in Zimbabwe and some parts of Mozambique lol not east african.

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   LW 12 June 2009 at 4:21 pm Permalink

   She has great style and great natural hair. I also dig her band, http://www.myspace.com/noisettesuk.

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   Alice 12 June 2009 at 4:23 pm Permalink

   yup! I love her hair AND style :)

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    Anonymous 12 June 2009 at 5:32 pm Permalink

    I have heard of her. I have Verizon FIOS TV and I was flipping thru the channels and caught her band in concert. The music was pretty good, but I kept watching b/c I liked her style. You don't see too many black woman singing anything besides r&b.

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    mellowyel 12 June 2009 at 5:37 pm Permalink

    saw her on Le Coil (lecoil.tumblr.com), an awesome natural hair photo blog. She's so cool. Her music's cool too. And I saw AfroPunk! Amazing documentary, definitely a must-see.

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    pretty kitty publishing 12 June 2009 at 6:28 pm Permalink

    I first heard of her in 2007. Noisettes are FAB. Her style is cosmopolitan and edgy. Love that she is a rocker!

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    TAMMYANKA 12 June 2009 at 6:48 pm Permalink

    I like her style. Hair, vibe and fashion forwardness. Never heard of her, the US market does not allow the others in mainstream…..

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    KittyMoser 12 June 2009 at 6:55 pm Permalink

    hey yall OMG thank YOU for introducing me to such DOPENESS! never heard of them before today and im glad for it her hair is killin me im in LOVE with her style

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    Alicia 12 June 2009 at 6:59 pm Permalink

    I never heard of her before, but I just went and checked her myspace….she's hot. She has quite a voice and her style is very unique. Go 'head girl!

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    Yuki 12 June 2009 at 7:47 pm Permalink

    This post has got me thinking. Having frequented a number of natural hair sites and forums since I BCed last September, I seem to be noticing that the black women who embrace their natural hair quite often live in racially diverse areas or predominantly white areas, while women who choose to mainly relax and wear weaves live in largely black areas. Is this the case? And if so, why? Has anyone else noticed this? Or am I way of the mark here. Probably I am. Any thoughts?

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    justin 12 June 2009 at 9:58 pm Permalink

    Yikes… thats pretty awesome hair…

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    Anonymous 12 June 2009 at 10:23 pm Permalink

    I've heard of her!

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    The Star 13 June 2009 at 12:21 am Permalink

    I'm going to have to check this band out.

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    Anonymous 13 June 2009 at 10:44 pm Permalink

    A polite correction; Shona is a southern African language spoken in Zimbabwe – a southern African country!

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    Rinny Riot 14 June 2009 at 1:52 pm Permalink

    I love the noisettes they did a cover of the killers song, "When You Were Young" and one of my readers on chictopia told me I favored her.

    Here is their cover here.
    http://rinnyriot.blogspot.com/2009/05/noisettes.html

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    Favoured Girl 14 June 2009 at 3:07 pm Permalink

    She's fierce! I saw her in a magazine flaunting her natural fro and I've cut out the page for inspiration :)

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    Anonymous 15 June 2009 at 12:56 am Permalink

    Of course i heard of her! She's the noisettes' lead singer !
    " go baby! go baby go! don't upset the riddim now!"

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    J. Gracey 16 June 2009 at 3:15 am Permalink

    Oh yeah Shingai seriously rocks! Her voice is tops too!

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    serenissima 16 June 2009 at 12:39 pm Permalink

    She's quite fantabulous

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