[1] Highly successful singles including "Samanyemba", "Naye", and "Muchina Muhombe" led to his national, regional and international fame; he produced 14 albums in a career of over twenty years.
He was married to Mininhle Mukweli and had six children namely Natasha, Nicole, Obert (Tongai Jnr), Tanaka and Nyasha and Peter Moyo.
The album earned Moyo a name in the music industry, which was dominated by the likes of Nicholas Zakaria and Alick Macheso who sang the same genre.
The album "Naye" saw Dhewa hogging the limelight with his chart topper "Nemumvura Mese" which earned him two Zimbabwe Music Awards (ZIMA).
[6] His fierce battle with Alick Macheso led Tongai Moyo to look for ways to bolster his music in a bid to overcome the competition between him and 'Extra basso'.
He was married to Miniehle Mukweli and had six children namely Natasha, Nicole, Obert (Tongai Jnr), Tanaka and Nyasha and Peter Moyo.
Tongai Moyo later recounted “We had a family discussion with Barbara, my second wife (Miniehle Mukweli) and my sister as we tried to seek ways on how to improve our life.
Barbara akabvuma zvaakange asingade ( Barbara agreed to bringing in the second wife) and I never suspected it would end like this (her committing suicide),”[9] After the death of Tongai Moyo, his surviving window, Miniehle Mukweli, was reported to be pregnant and expecting her second child, but this time with her late husband’s best friend, Kwekwe businessman Barmet Mutosvori.
Miniehle confirmed to a local tabloid that she had moved in with Mutosvori and the two lovebirds had decided to settle down and “very soon wedding bells will be ringing since he paid everything as per our custom.”.
After more than a decade in the music industry and about 14 albums under his belt, the Utakataka Express frontman lived in a rented house in Msasa, Kwekwe.
The album "Naye" saw Dhewa hogging the limelight with his chart topper "Nemumvura Mese" which earned him two Zimbabwe Music Awards (ZIMA).
[17] Tongai Moyo had made it public that he was battling cancer and his struggle with the disease was recorded in a documentary film in October 2011,[18] the same year he succumbed to the deadly illness.
Business came to a standstill as Moyo’s body, accompanied by family members and friends, was driven from the funeral parlour to his home town of Kwekwe.
When Moyo’s first wife committed suicide in 2010, Tsvangirai spent a considerable amount of his time at his house in Kwekwe consoling his friend.
Macheso, who is viewed by many sungura music lovers as the arch rival to the late Moyo, said he first learnt of the death when he was on tour in Chiredzi.