Amanda is one of Cape Town’s best-loved vocalist-pianists, and a respected Musical Director/Arranger, orchestrator and composer. She is Head of Jazz Studies, and runs the Jazz Singing section at the University of Cape Town.
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Cara Stacey is a South African musician, composer and researcher. She is a pianist and plays southern African musical bows (umrhubhe, uhadi, makhweyane). Cara holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and SOAS (London). Her doctoral research investigated practice and innovation in the music of the makhweyane musical bow in the Kingdom of eSwatini.
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Chantal Willie-Petersen is one of South Africa’s most accomplished jazz musicians. She has performed all over the world, including at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl in L.A., the Blue Note in Japan and has worked with performers such as Zap Mama, Erykah Badu and Tania Maria. She is currently a lecturer at Wits University
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Chloe is a dynamic presence in South Africa's entertainment industry. She is no stranger to the stage and loves being part of the local show and corporate scene.
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Daisy “Mama Dee” Mangwato (born Daisy Mashianoke Mangwato) in 1986, hails from Sekhukhune, Limpopo Province, currently resides in Pretoria. She is a South African Singer, Guitarist, composer, music teacher and a cofounder and a project manager of Jazz Camp for Female instrumentalists -Mamelodi (JCFI-Mamelodi), an organisation which enhances females from disadvantaged areas with art skills (Music,Drama,Dance,Visual Art and Poetry)
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Emma is a freelance Opera & classical performer, focusing on performing women composers. and runs a private vocal coaching studio. After graduating with Distinctions in Music and BA Honours. she will now be pursuing a Masters of Education, specialising in the teaching of WAM Female Composers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 2020/21.
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Emma van Heyn is a South African actor, musician and songwriter. She has released a vast kaleidoscope of musical creations from a 16 track self-produced album, to recent singles and theatre sound design. She has just completed a successful live tour to London and New York City with her new upcoming releases.
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Born in 1976 in Kagiso, Johannesburg, and raised in Qumbu in the Eastern Cape, Ghetto Queen is a musician, writer, vocalist, teacher and Nal'ibali Funder Leader.
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Kate de Gruchy graduated with a B.Mus. from the University of Cape Town in 2019 where she specialised in composition, music technology and piano. She is a classical pianist by training, although her own music tends towards contemporary and jazz styles.
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Keitumetse Joyce Moholoagae is a South African vocalist and educator. She has performed in venues across South Africa, and from the Royal Festival Hall to the Globe Theatre in London. She is based in Johannesburg where she works as a singer, choir director and educator.
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Winner of the jazz section of the 2019 SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Competition, Keorapetse studied at Tshwane University of Technology, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, and recently completed her postgraduate study at Wits University. Having specialised in music performance, composition, arranging, technology, and music business, she is employed across the country as a music educator/lecturer, sound engineer, arts administrator, performing artist, songwriter, composer and arranger.
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Kirsty Adams is a South African composer/songwriter, singer, violinist, philanthropist. She released her debut EP The Wings Beneath My Feathers in April 2019 which combines her love for classical, pop and jazz. Kirsty has been accepted to New York University to study a Masters in Music Composition specialising in Songwriting.
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Musical theatre specialist, singer and songwriter, Maya Spector’s artistic roots are derived from the wonderful worlds of jazz and soul. Her career includes solo performances at the esteemed Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and powerful performances in classic musicals such as ‘Langarm’, ‘Rent!’, ‘The Silence of the Music’, ‘The Man of La Mancha’, ‘Jimbo’ and ‘My Fair Lady’.
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Millicent Ngwalangwala is a Reggae, R&B and Afropop singer who twice won an award for R&B upcoming artist in 2018 and 2019. She is a poet, singer and is currently writing a play.
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Nicky Schrire is a versatile and inventive vocalist and composer whose work has earned her comparisons to artists like Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, and Esperanza Spalding. She has performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, London, Dublin and South Africa.
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Thandeka Louisa Mfinyongo was born and raised in Nyanga East, Cape Town. She holds aPerformer’s Diploma in Music and an Advanced Diploma in African Music, both from the University of Cape Town. She specialises in two Xhosa instruments, uhadi (gourd/calabash bow) and umrhubhe (mouth-bow) and is currently doing her Master’s in Music Performance at SOAS University of London, specialising in kora instrument.
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Thembelihle Dunjana is a gigging musician from Cape Town. Thembelihle is a pianist, composer, singer, teacher and mentor who graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of music majoring in Jazz performance.
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Thobekile Mbanda affectionately known as Ntomb’Yelanga is a conceptual artist, community activist and uses music as her medium and muse.
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Thulile Zama Holds a BA (Music) and recently completed her honours in Culture, Communication and Media at UKZN. She is well known in the jazz circuit and a well-loved vocalist in Durban, and has performed Hamburg, and Berlin in Germany and New Orleans, USA. She is the lead vocalist of award winning all female contemporary jazz band Heels Over Head.
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Ulagh Williams is a jazz vocalist, director, conductor, producer and musicologist on jazz and gender. Whilst teaching music at schools across South Africa, she directed choirs, ensembles, big bands and theatre productions. She lectured in jazz and contemporary vocals at Nelson Mandela University (2014-2018) and also at Rhodes University (2017-present) where she is currently studying towards a PhD.
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