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Spha Mdlalose
Jazz vocalist Spha Mdlalose moves from rough-hewn shebeen-styled jazz through souful gospel grooves to Sarah Vaughan-like sophistication and Ella-edged beboppers. Since graduating Mdlalose has performed alongside Jimmy Dludlu, Zamajobe and Sbongile Khumalo. PASS people will know her from Bheki Khoza’s War Chorale, her sets with Lwanda Gogwana and the Plantation Miners at Tagore’s and her recent performance in Neo Muyanga’s Flower of Shembe. Watch one of her performances here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXqt9xE1ENA
Neo Muyanga
A once-off: Chief Dr. Prof. Neo Muyanga drops his shembe baton and pulls out the toys – and this man takes his games seriously. Muyanga was born in Soweto, into a long line of traditional composers and makers of the timbila (a Mozambican tuned wood percussion instrument). He studied the Italian madrigal tradition with choral maestro, Piero Poclen, in Trieste, Italy. Neo composes works for choir, chamber and large ensemble and continues to tour widely as a solo performer and …
Reza Khota
Spha Mdlalose
Jazz vocalist Spha Mdlalose moves from rough-hewn shebeen-styled jazz through souful gospel grooves to Sarah Vaughan-like sophistication and Ella-edged beboppers. Since graduating Mdlalose has performed alongside Jimmy Dludlu, Zamajobe and Sbongile Khumalo. PASS people will know her from Bheki Khoza’s War Chorale, her sets with Lwanda Gogwana and the Plantation Miners at Tagore’s and her recent performance in Neo Muyanga’s Flower of Shembe.