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NEW ZEALAND 2015
Soweto Gospel Choir start Gardens Arts Festival with a bang Soweto Gospel Choir gave stellar vocal performances in the first show of Hamilton’s Gardens Arts Festival. It’s not often choirs draw this sort of crowd, but the Soweto Gospel Choir is arguably one of the most popular vocal groups worldwide. It has won two Grammy...
MAZWE SHABALALA
MAZWE SHABALALA Local Company Manager Associate Choreographer and Choir Master, Bass, Dancer (Founding Member) This talented young man comes from a family of performers – his father was a well-known comedian and actor, having performed on both stage and screen in South Africa. Originally from Kwamashu in Natal, Mazwe first performed with the Bafana Dance...
DINILOXOLO NDLAKUSE
DINILOXOLO NDLAKUSE Musical Director, Tenor, Keyboards Born in Soweto, Diniloxolo started singing at Church at the age of six years old. At the age of eight he started playing his father’s melodica and his love of music has grown since that day. After completing his schooling he studied music at Eastside College for two years...
SHIMMY JIYANE
SHIMMY JIYANE Choreographer, Choir Master, Tenor, Dancer (Founding Member) As long as he can remember, Shimmy has wanted to dance. He has realised his dream with performances in shows with the fabulous Tina Turner and South African stars like Vicki Samson, and choreographers Adele Blank, David Matamela and Debbie Rakusin. In fact it was David...
Beverly Bryer
Beverly Bryer has been involved in the entertainment industry for over 35 years, working with some of South Africa’s premier recording artists before moving on to become Managing Director of one of the country’s most successful music publishing companies. In 1985 she moved to Australia where she worked as Publicist/Event Co-ordinator for concert/theatre promoter Paul...
AUSTRALIA – 2014
Soweto Gospel Choir Canberra Theatre. 10 July 2014 and touring nationally. Singing-and-dancing troupes from exotic locations fall more or less, I find, into two classes: those from whom inner joy and vitality exude in song and movement, and those from whom it doesn’t. Perhaps not coincidentally, the skill, the range, the ability to have us...
USA 2014
Soweto Gospel pays tribute to Madiba MARCH 25 2014 BY JESSE STARITA FOR THE LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR The beautiful harmonies born in a Johannesburg, South Africa, township 12 years ago delivered a soul-stirring two-hour set last night before 1,500 congregants at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. In the hands of the peerless Soweto Gospel...
UK 2014
CHRIS CHIVERS – VICAR OF JOHN KEBLE CHURCH, LONDON. CAPE TIMES Every detail of Mandela memorial at Westminster Abbey was magnificently judged, says Chris Chivers. London – It was not the first time that the South African flag had flown from the tower of Westminster Abbey. That happened in 1994 when a great service welcomed...
CANADA 2014
Concert Review: Soweto Gospel Choir at Montreal Jazz Festival Exuding a joy that can’t be faked The Soweto Gospel Choir is nothing less than an international treasure. Since making its performance debut in Cape Town in 2003, during the first of Nelson Mandela’s “46664” concerts to raise awareness about AIDS/HIV, the South African choir has...