Thandiswa Mazwai

Name: Thandiswa Mazwai
Start: 2024-07-13T21:00:00-04:00
Location: GPS 14591 Superior Rd; Mailing: 40 Severance Cir, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118

Schedule

Sat Jul 13 2024 at 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

GPS 14591 Superior Rd; Mailing: 40 Severance Cir, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118 | Cleveland Heights, OH

📍 Cain Park, Evans Amphitheater
Saturday, June 13th at 9pm
*Directly following the Arts Fest

About the artist:
Thandiswa has been one of the most influential post-Apartheid singers in South Africa. She began her career in 1996 with music groups Jack Knife and Bongo Maffin, one of the pioneering bands of the dance music genre Kwaito. After 6 award-winning albums with Bongo Maffin she ventured onto a solo career.Her first solo project Zabalaza (2004), reached double platinum status and won numerous awards, including a Kora award for Best African Female and four South African Music Awards. Her critically acclaimed sophomoric release Ibokwe (2009) and third album, a jazz reinterpretation of South African classics, Belede (2016) reached gold status within a few weeks of release. Her compositions include traditional xhosa music, mbaqanga, funk, jazz, and reggae.
Known for her electrifying performances, Thandiswa has performed all over the world at venues including the Apollo Theatre, The Lincoln Centre, The Cannes Film Festival, Africa Express, BBC World Music Awards,TED, Afropunk, Carnegie Hall Citywide Festival, among others. She has collaborated with artists such as Hugh Masekela, Meshell Ndegeocello (including on her 2024 Grammy Winning album),Fatoumata Diawara, Somi, and DJ Black Coffee.
Thandiswa’s next album Sankofa is due for release in May 2024. Sankofa is a Twi word that means ‘to go back and fetch what has been left behind’,the making of this work has embodied that idea. Recorded in Johannesburg, Dakar, and New York, the album combines archival Xhosa music, jazz and west African music, and includes songs produced by Meshell Ndegeocello and Nduduzo Makhatini, and collaborations with Thandi Ntuli and Tendai Shoko.