(Natalie Rungan)
The Rainbow
Restaurant will host popular jazz personality Natalie Rungan and her trio on
Sunday.
Rungan studied
music at school and university where she excelled in vocal performance. In
1999, she graduated from the University of Natal with a Bachelor’s degree in
Music. She taught jazz vocals at the university for seven years in the Jazz Studies
programme. She completed her Masters Degree in Jazz Performance, Composition
and Arranging in 2002. That same year, she was awarded best jazz vocalist in
the Old Mutual National Jazz Encounters competition.
“Someone once said
that my voice has the quality of burnt honey,” Rungan says. “I think it has
many sounds – from sultry, to folk, to husky, to a belting alto. I describe it
as sunshine.” Her range now sits above three octaves.
Natalie’s early
love of Jazz was ignited by her American-born Jazz vocal teacher, Mitos Andaya.
It opened a new world of music to the young singer who would never turn back
from that moment on. Thereafter. she spent lonely hours listening to Joshua
Redman, Ella Fitzgerald, Dianne Reeves and other greats.
While she has
performed at festivals which hosted icons like Al Jarreau, Sibongile Khumalo,
Hugh Masekela and Winston Mankunku, she is still a local girl at heart.
The concert takes
place on Sunday (August 10) at the RAINBOW RESTAURANT in Pinetown. Doors open at
13h00. Tickets R6 available at https://www.webtickets.co.za/event.aspx?itemid=409794326
or call 083 706 2294.
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