iMbizo yamaKhono : Gathering of the Arts
iMbizo yamaKhono is a self-development series. Spiritual, emotional, technical and business learnings in indigenous knowledge provides critical know how for a career in South African music and heritage.
The series is multi-media and includes capacity building workbooks accompanied by documentary videos for a real time activation in music education. Positive Afrocentric music incubation, career stimulation and outcomes based interventions. SO1-4
The Story of South African
The musical legacy and language of South Africa is an expression of freedom. A definitive series of stories from the wisdom keepers of South African Jazz.
Stories from the University of Life. Through the lens of heart centred South African jazz comes a musical vibration that it unique. In this three-part musical journey, journalist Struan Douglas re-awakens the intergenerational exchange of lived experience memory and mentorship to awaken his own musical voice. Interviews, comments, anecdotes and archives provide for an all-inclusive channel to the interpersonal freedom of Southern Africa Jazz.
JOHNNY IMBIZO DYANI
Johnny Dyani is the composer who bridged music and society, jazz and freedom. A magician of the ostinato.
36 years after the death of musical freedom fighter in exile, Johnny Mbizo Dyani, Jazz Against Apartheid colleagues in Europe repatriate his living compositional legacy home to the Gompo Village and the Biko Centre to inspire the future generations. How the folk music of the Eastern Cape inspired the political struggle of the Anti-apartheid movement in exile.
BUSI MHLONGO
Narrative Legacy of one of the best artists of the South African jazz and theatre generation. A unique voice for Africa's future.
Busi Mhlongo is a vocalist, actress and band leader. A recording star at aged 19 with My Boy Lollypop she graces the Jazz, theatre and world music stages igniting audiences, friends and followers on three continents with her unique Urban Zulu style.
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