Raised on the plains of Zambezi until age 10, Creole' Zimbabwe was revered in his tribe as a reincarnation of the African god of music: Za-Hooloo. It was his strong devotion to his faith as a Rastafarian that led him away from the ways of his people and into the United States working as the lightboard operator for "Ladysmith Black Mumbazo"'s 1979 tour of Georgia. One night, after an especially bright show, he stumbled into the wrong tour buses baggage compartment. Whne he woke out of his stupor, he found himself on the soggy shoreline of sweaty southern California.
It was here that he discovered that he was a panflute prodigy, under the tutelage of Bagwan Rashmir-Hashish, who also taught him the ways of ukulele, sitar, and what would be his trademark instrument - spoons. Although his one-man show won him L.A.'s coveted 1983 "Best Bar-band Award", he knew that he needed to expand his horizons. Meeting Pippy Fettuccini allowed him to do so.
They formed "Ratfish Entrails" in 1987 and asked heroin addict, and homeless washout, Francis "the Destroyer" to be their temporary guitarist. It was his early drug induced electric guitar wailings that can be heard on their first recording, "Old Folks Home". It was upon returning home from a night out, that Pippy and Creole' found their washed-up friend lying on the floor of their pad with an empty wine jug next to him. He kept mumbling something about changing the groups name to "Lovers of Fitness", but the two less inebriated bandmates heard only, "Brothers of Wickedness", and so a legend began...
It was Creole's arrest and imprisonment in late 1987 for selling colored crack that changed his life forever and helped him shed his lifetime addiction to hard drugs. It was also here where he met Billy Bob Savage. Billy Bob was in for stealing Bongos. He was also on work-release to work at the drumstick factory. Needless to say, this man's life revolved around percussion, and Creole knew he needed this talent. In was in California State Prison where these two new friends hammered out a rough version of "Fluffy's not coming home". Creole's freedom inspired him to write his famed reggae ballad, "Zimbabwe Dream" which led to 1988's 8-figure signing with I.N.G.A.G. Records, and a sold out 60-city World Tour. The rest, as they say, is history .
Creole' lives on an island somewhere in the South China Sea with his Dog, "Bannana Tree Grove' and his 12 wives.
