Platoon honours South African singers for Heritage Month. Simphiwe Dana, Bongeziwe Mabandla, Mandisi Dyantyis and Nobuhle are honoured for their musical contributions with a mural in Maboneng ...
Increasingly, however, violence would be replaced with poll taxes, as well as literacy and property requirements, keeping both African Americans and poor whites from voting. The Jubilee Singers ...
The London African Gospel Choir (LAGC) is an internationally acclaimed group of African and Caribbean singers, instrumentalists and dancers.
In 2018, when visiting the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, choreographer Gregory Maqoma came across the multimedia installation The African Choir 1891 Re-imagined (2017).
Genre-defying South African cellist Abel Selaocoe joins the BBC Singers as musician, vocalist, curator and support to the Singers’ educational work. Abel had his solo debut at the BBC Proms in ...
Academic Aaron Carter-Enyi acknowledged Makeba’s influence on other African singers to sing in their mother tongues. Like Benin’s Angelique Kidjo who sings in Yoruba, Mali’s Oumou Sangare ...
“Our goal is to honor immortal African American vocalists who embraced songs from stage and screen musicals—and in many cases created the definitive recordings,” they share. “Ella Fitzgerald is once ...
For this event, a group of Korean singers, Ensemble Enus, who perform on international stages was invited to set the stage with the internationally acclaimed South African choirs. In these special ...