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Pages in category "South African women jazz singers" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The following year she returned to the South African Woman of the Year Awards Show with South African Music Award Winner, Mozambican guitarist Jimmy Dludlu, performing their hit single Peaceful Moment to which Melanie penned the lyric. In 2002 she won the Best Jazz Vocalist Award at the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters.
South African women jazz singers (16 P) Pages in category "South African jazz singers" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
He wrote and co-produced two songs on the album. The album earned her nominations for Best South African Artist and The Most Promising Female Artist at the 2001 Kora All Africa Awards and another South African Music Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. [1]
Following year, she contested on The Voice South Africa and made it to the Top 8. [3] Her debut studio album Yellow: The Novel was released in 2017. [3] [4] The album was nominated Best African Artist Album and Best Jazz Album at the South African Music Awards. On June 26, 2020, her second studio album Inganekwane was released.
In 2011 Duke University Press published Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz, which was written by Benjamin and Carol Muller, a South African ethnomusicologist, over the course of twenty years. She returned to Cape Town in 2011, where she continued to work as a vocalist. She died on 20 August 2013 at the age of 76. [10] [11] [9]
The jazz scene in South Africa grew much as it did in the United States. Through performances in nightclubs, dances, and other venues, musicians had the opportunity to play music often. Musicians such as singer Sathima Bea Benjamin learned by going to nightclubs and jam sessions and waiting for opportunities to offer their talents.
Klaasen was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Gold (2006) for "excellent achievement in and contribution to the art of Music". In August 2013, as part of the Women's Month celebrations, Klaasen and four other icons of South African jazz - Abigail Kubeka, Dorothy Masuka, Sathima Bea Benjamin and Sylvia Mdunyelwa - were honoured by Standard Bank with lifetime achievement awards. [5]