In December, 2002 their first album “Voices of Heaven” was recorded and went on to reach the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s World Music Chart within 3 weeks of its release in the US. In 2003 the choir won ...
Prayer combined with protest, holiness mixed with justified hostility — these are the hallmarks of the Soweto Gospel Choir’s repertoire. It’s a mixture of feelings the group has imbibed from birth in ...
UPDATE: This concert has been postponed to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10, 2022. All tickets sold for Sept. 29 will be honored Oct. 10. Details: hancher.uiowa.edu/2022-23/Soweto ...
Dancing and singing contribute to the soul of South Africa. And in South Africa, few other performance groups can compete with this gospel bunch. The Soweto Gospel Choir has earned five Grammy ...
The Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center will present Soweto Gospel Choir at 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 20. A celebratory and culturally rich performance, the world-renowned, multi-GRAMMY and Emmy ...
The Soweto Gospel Choir will perform at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 28, at the Newberry Opera House, 1201 McKibben St., Newberry.
The Soweto Gospel Choir has been around for 20 years and Shimmy Jiyane (Gee-Ani) has been with the Internationally famous performing group since the beginning. “I was one of several people who started ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.