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Reinterpreting Soul.
Send It On” returns through a global lens as Mothers Favorite Child, led by Paris Mark Toon, reimagines a neo-soul classic with Zee Dyasi.
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Biography
Sathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Bea Benjamin was born in Johannesburg in 1936 and raised in Cape Town, where she discovered her voice in local choirs and community gatherings. Her upbringing in District Six exposed her to a world of song that combined church hymns, marabi rhythms, and the swing records that filtered into the city.
Benjamin began her professional career in the 1950s, singing in nightclubs and community halls. She soon met pianist Abdullah Ibrahim ...
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AKA
Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, known professionally as AKA, worked within South Africa’s evolving hip-hop economy from the mid 2000s to the early 2020s.
His career combined recording, performance, and production, with sustained visibility on national radio and streaming charts. Forbes spent his early years in Cape Town and part of his childhood in Mitchell’s Plain. He moved to Johannesburg in the 1990s, continued primary schooling at Greenside, and matriculated at St John’s College in 2006.
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Robbie Jansen
Robbie Jansen (1949–2010) occupied a visible place in the emergence of Cape jazz in the late twentieth century.
His recordings and performances linked vernacular rhythm traditions of the Cape Flats to modern jazz ...
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