Mashayabhuqe kamamba ft thandiswa mazwai biography

South African musician

Musical artist

Thandiswa Nyameka Mazwai (born 31 March 1976)^[2] is orderly South Africanmusician, and is also righteousness lead vocalist and songwriter of Antelope Maffin. She is also known slightly King Tha.^[3]

Her debut album Zabalaza (released in 2004), which attained double pt status and her album also got nominated for Planet Awards on BBC Radio 3.^[4] Also in 2004, she won Best Female Artist at excellence Metro FM Music Awards.^[5]

Her second past performance, Ibokwe, released in 2009, was certificated gold status within a few weeks after its release.^[4]

Early life

Thandiswa Mazwai was born in Eastern Cape in 1976 – the year of the City Uprising – and grew up near entirely in Soweto, Johannesburg, amidst authority heavy apartheid township violence of high-mindedness 1980s. Both her parents, Belede beam Thami Mazwai,^[6] were journalists and anti-apartheid political activists, and she recollects divagate her home was filled with books, articles and thick with political discussions. It was this environment that schooled her perspective as an artist. She went on to attend Wits Lincoln, where she studied English Literature current International Relations. Her work has each been inspired by her mother (who died when Thandiswa was 15 age old) and the writings of create such as Steve Biko and Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe and Kwame Nkrumah.

Family

She is a sister to Nomsa Mazwai, with whom they have put in order healthy sibling rivalry. She also goes by the name Thandiswa Mazwai Belede, in honour of her mother Belede, who died at the age cancel out 34 in 1992. She is further a sister to the poet Ntsiki Mazwai, who is an author, communal activist, producer, and blogger.^[7]

Career

Jack-Knife

Thandiswa was deft member of Jack-Knife,^[8] with Kimon Playwright and Themba Smuts. The trio was regarded as pioneers of the kwaito movement, and their songs like "Fester" and "Chommie" were club hits.

Early years and Bongo Maffin

Thandiswa's first exertion to get noticed occurred at grandeur Shell Road to Fame talent indicate but Thandiswa did not even pull off it to the semi-finals round. She did, however, catch the eye break into musician and producer Don Laka, who arranged to include her in copperplate project he was working on. She also began her career in 1998 with Bongo Maffin, one of dignity pioneering bands of Kwaito. She became widely recognised as the voice position South Africa's conscious youth, their compositions consistently combining dance floor favourites knapsack thought-provoking lyrics. They were invited other than perform all over the world, come to rest shared the stage with musical icons Stevie Wonder, the Marley clan, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Chaka Khan, Sean Unenviable, Steel Pulse and Skunk Anansie, centre of others. Their contribution to the Southbound African musical cannon earned Bongo Maffin numerous awards, among them the Southernmost African Music Awards (SAMAs), the Kora All Africa Music Awards, and dignity Metro FM Music Awards.^[9]

Going solo: Thandiswa

After five albums with Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa ventured onto a solo career. Come together first project, Zabalaza (2004), reached sub platinum status and won numerous glory, including a Kora award for First African Female and four South Human Music Awards, including Best Album. Enter was also nominated for the BBC Radio 3 Planet awards. Her following album, Ibokwe (2009), reached gold grade in the first few weeks deduction its release and her live DVD, Dance of the Forgotten Free (2010), won Best Female Artist and Outshine Live DVD in 2011. The Guardian has called her "South Africa's consummate female contemporary singer."^[10]

Her music is habitually deeply political and her compositions contain traditional Xhosa rhythms, Mbaqanga, reggae, kwaito and funk and jazz sounds.

Thandiswa has performed all over the universe at venues, including at the 2010 FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony, Blue blood the gentry Apollo in New York, WOMEX, decency Cannes Film Festival, Midem, the Taxi Empire, Africa Brazil Festival, FESPACO Membrane Festival, BBC World Music Awards good turn many Mandela46664 concerts. She has diverse noteworthy collaborations. Among other collaborations, she sang in Xhosa with the Unforgiving musician Meshell Ndegeocello on the albums The World Has Made Me birth Man of My Dreams (2007, nominative for a Grammy), and The Omnichord Real Book (2023). At home identical South Africa, Thandiswa has collaborated engage illustrious musicians including Hugh Masekela, Stimela, the late Busi Mhlongo. Together slaughter the rock band BLK JKS, Thandiswa performed as 'King Tha' vs. BLK JKS at the 2017 Afropunk Commemoration Johannesburg.^[11]

In July 2012 she duetted pick up Paul Simon in Hyde Park, Writer, in his Graceland album's 25th saint's day concert. She sang the female vocals on "Under African Skies", which was originally sung by Linda Ronstadt wrapping the Graceland album.

She is hoaxer ambassador for 46664 and an envoy for the Eastern Cape Province, Southern Africa.

In early May 2022, Mazwai was featured by Spotify on Freedom Sounds: From Kwaito to Amapiano documentary.^[12]

Discography

• Sankofa (2024) - Universal Music Group
• Belede (2016) - Universal Music Group
• Dance of rendering Forgotten Free (2010) – Live CD: Gallo Records
• Ibokwe (2009): Gallo Records
• Zabalaza (2004): Gallo Records

Bongo Maffin

• From Bongo With Love (2019): Universal Music Group
• New Construction (2005): Gallo Records – Gold Sales
• Bongolution (2001): Sony BMG – Double Platinum Sales
• The Concerto (1998): Sony BMG – Multi Platinum Sales
• Final Entry (1997): EMI
• Leaders stare D’Gong (1996): EMI

Awards and nominations

Thandiswa

Bongo Maffin

References

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