You’d expect that winning two Grammies would mean you could give up the day job. But when I meet the Soweto Gospel Choir’s co-founder, David Mulovhedzi, at his home outside Johannesburg — two weeks ...

Dressed in vibrant costumes, 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 — ...

For many, their first experience with Nigerian afrobeats singer Victony, born Anthony Ebuka Victor, came with the growing hit song “Soweto.” As of today, that record has three versions: the original, ...

The song’s success in late 2022 led to a remix featuring Don Toliver and Rema in 2023, which helped maintain its momentum. “The song was already successful in late 2022, and in 2023, we wanted to ...

A question about apartheid in South Africa 30 years ago: "Do you take what your father has taken or do you stand up for what you think it right?" The speaker is Thandi Modise and he is recalling the ...

Few ensembles embody the intertwining of artistry and political memory as fully as the Soweto Gospel Choir. Emerging in a country still reckoning with the psychological scars of apartheid, the group ...

MYSTIC CHORALE SINGS WITH YSAYE BARNWELL!! Come share the joy as 200 singers of the Mystic Chorale, led by Nick Page, perform SELMA TO SOWETO, songs of community, power and hope from the ongoing Civil ...

*More from South Africa as I visited Soweto about 25 minutes by road from Johannesburg. I remembered Nigerian musician, Sonny Okosuns‘ liberation songs such as “Fire In Soweto Song” and “Papa’s Land.” ...

In December, in the thick of tributes that poured in following the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Soweto Gospel Choir chose to eulogize their leader with an abrupt, but no less affecting, ...

The Soweto Gospel Choir will perform at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri St. Louis at 8 p.m. Saturday, November 10. The Soweto Gospel Choir will perform ...