The Four Brothers are perhaps the most internationally successful and recognised group to come from Zimbabwe. The members are not literally brothers and at times there have been more than four. They play fast-paced guitar-based pop music with songs sung in the Shona language.

The Four Brothers was a New York-based Tong which rivaled the On Leong and Hip Sing Tongs for control of Chinatown during the early 1900s. Their murder of 16-year-old Bow Kum, recently "bought" by a member of the rival On Leongs to take as his wife, began a violent gang war between the three Tongs lasting over a year before a truce was arranged by the United States and Chinese governments.