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The Soweto Gospel Choir blends the rich sounds of traditional African music with dance and a variety of musical genres -- rock and hip-hop, and American gospel and R&B -- and the combination has ...
COVID-19 hit the Soweto Gospel Choir very hard, with members losing loved ones to the disease. Instead of bottling up their grief, they channeled their emotions into recording an album full of ...
The Virginia Arts Festival in Norfolk's fall lineup includes performances from its Attucks Jazz series, Soweto Gospel Choir ...
The Soweto Gospel Choir has also garnered six Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, and an Academy Award nomination. They are also an Emmy Award and two-time African Music Award winners.
WHAT: Soweto Gospel Choir's concert of HOPE: It’s Been a Long Time Coming, commemorating South Africa’s freedom movement and the U.S. civil rights movement performing music of the civil rights ...
The Soweto Gospel Choir was formed in November 2002 in Soweto, South Africa to celebrate the unique and inspirational power of African gospel music.
Then, performing with the Gospel group Joyous Celebration, he started work on his vocal performance, something that is now regarded as “haunting” and sweet as he performs as Soweto’s lead tenor.
The project sees Soweto Gospel Choir put their own spin on classic club songs, with the help of Australian producer Groove Terminator.
Soweto Gospel Choir received its third Grammy nomination in December 2008, this time in the category Best Contemporary World Music, for their album, “Live at the Nelson Mandela Theatre.” The song ...
The Soweto Gospel Choir’s “Songs of the Free” program, which will be presented Saturday at the Paramount Theater, “celebrates the freedom South Africa has,” choirmaster and choreographer ...
The story of the Soweto Gospel Choir is not just one of musical excellence. It is also a tale of the reinvention of a township once known as a hotbed of rebellion, then as a cauldron of crime, and ...
Like the isicathimiya (a cappella) Zulu traditionalists, Soweto Gospel Choir can now lay claim to two Grammys, having added the 2008 best traditional world music award for "African Spirit" to last ...