(Nina Mkhize. Pic by Simanga Zondo)
In association with Concerts SA and The Luthuli
Museum, iSupport Music Business presents Nina Mkhize Live in concert at the 50
years Remembrance Concert of Chief Albert Luthuli.
Vocalist Mkhize and her band will visit Groutville
on July 22 at 11h00 where she will grace the stage at The Groutville Market
Grounds as part of the 50 years Remembrance Celebrations of The Luthuli Museum.
Alongside her, the local poet Let Da Poet will perform. The concert will be
free of charge.
Nina Mkhize is a jazz trained vocalist and composer
and two-time winner of the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters Awards from Durban,
KwaZulu-Natal. Her repertoire includes original jazz and African music
compositions and renditions of art
songs standards. Her contralto
voice has been described as breathy and sultry, and the style of her music
ranges from swing to funk to boss nova. Many of the songs she performs are
original compositions.
Mkhize counts the late Bheki Mseleku as one of her
greatest influences, whom she met while a student at the now-defunct music
school at the Durban Institute of Technology now housed at UKZN. In 2004, she
performed as a guest singer as part of Mseleku’s communal at the Melody
International Festival at the Mmabatho International Convention Centre.
Performance work has seen her front as a singer for
the Shuttle Band, a Commission by the Nordic Council of Ministers which saw a
collaboration between an ensemble of South African and Scandinavian musicians
which included the late Ray Phiri, the late Gito Baloi, Concord Nkabinde (SA)
and Stien Casternsen, Bendik Hofseth, Ricard Nettermalm (Norway). Formerly, she
has led the Standard Bank Youth Jazz Band under the direction of saxophonist
Barney Rachabane at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Her film work with Dr Sazi Dlamini has seen her
contribute her singing and scoring talents on soundtracks for the documentary Bhambayi and movies Sky in Her Eyes and Izulu
Lami -a winner of the Djibril Diop Mamberty Prize at the Cannes Film
Festival in France.
As a well-travelled performer Mkhize has played at
an array of stages such as the North Sea Jazz Festival, SA 10thDemocracy Celebrations
in Brazil, the Indoni Cultural, Joy of Jazz and Unyazi Electrical Music
Festivals.
Additionally she has recorded with and performed on
albums by Busi Mhlongo (Indiza), Ian
Henderson (Free Falling) and Nibs Van
Der Spuy (Flower in the Rain) while appearing
in concert alongside Nduduzo Makhathini, Herbie Tsoaeli, Ayanda Sikade,
trumpeter Feya Faku and famed Malombo sideman percussionist Gabriel Mabi
Thobejane.
Following an erratic concert and recording schedule
with minimal appearances in the live music circuit, she recently featured her
voice on the Rhythms Del Mundo
sessions by the Grammy award winning songwriter and producer Kenny Young, and
has appeared as a guest singer on the Warm Days Ensemble, an outfit by DJ and
producer QB Smith, which saw her perform alongside composer Thandi Ntuli,
bassist Thembinkosi Mavimbela, percussionist El Hadji and house music vocalist
Khensy.
She instructs learners on a part-time basis on
voice and music theory at Umlazi Comtech. She hopes to release her album of
original music, inspired by a culmination of life experiences in the world
soon-to which she attests have helped expand world view, thus growing her
writing talents as an artist which chronicle her journey through life in the
jazz & African music idioms.
Nina’s band for this performance would be Nina
Mkhize on vocals, Mandla Zikalala on bass guitar, Bucco Xaba on drums and
Mthobisi Mthalane on piano.
Let Da Poet, Lethu
Nkwanyana, is a humble man who expresses his love for God and creation through a
simple way of putting words on paper turning them into poetry, which was first
realised in the year 2012 at his local church thereafter his art grew. for he
believes that God is the ultimate poet so he simply Lets Da Poet Speak.
A versatile Christian poet, who has an exuberant stage presence.
This concert is part of the Luthuli Legacy Walk and
Half Marathon and the Concerts SA Venue Circuit. The 11,5 km walk will
commemorate Chief Luthuli's final walk to the railway bridge where there was
allegedly a train accident that led to his untimely death. The walk will end at
The Groutville Market Grounds where the concert will take place.
The concert takes place on July 22 at 11h00 at the Groutville Market Grounds from 11h00. Entrance:
is free.
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