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Don’t miss the Gospel Icon Discovery Competition in Inanda

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Pictured are last year’s Gospel Icon Discovery Competition are winners, the GTI Gospel Group from Umlazi, Mphathiseni Dube from Newtown and Siphesihle Hadebe from Cato Manor. Photo by Val Adamson

The 4th annual Gospel Icon Discovery Competition takes place at the Ohlange Sports Ground in Inanda, near Durban, between 8.30 am and 3.30 pm on Sunday, November 13.

This eThekwini Parks, Recreation and Culture Unit gospel music talent search programme is aimed at cultivating upcoming artists in the city, and helps them launch their musical careers. Continue reading →

Africa celebrates as Black Coffee and Falz win big at the 2016 BET Awards

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DJ Black Coffee.

Legendary South African artist Black Coffee has become the first South African artist to win best international act: Africa at the BET Awards, while Nigerian newcomer, Falz, has accelerated his career with a well-deserved win in the viewer’s choice: best new act category.

To watch Black Coffee and Falz receive their awards, tune into the BET Awards premiere on BET (DStv channel 129) on Tuesday, June 28 at 7pm CAT. Continue reading →

Head to the ‘Berg for the Smoking Dragon Adrenalin Festival

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Nomisupasta to perform at Smoking Dragon Adrenalin Festival

THE Smoking Dragon Adrenalin Festival will take place at the Amphitheatre Backpackers’ Lodge, in the foothills of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park in KwaZulu-Natal from June 16 to 18.

The three-day unique event combines adrenalin-packed festivities with great music in the bo-ho backpackers’ lodge overlooking the magnificent Northern Drakensberg mountain range. Continue reading →

Enjoy a unique new concert series with the Parlotones

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The Parlotones

AFTER a successful 2015 which saw The Parlotones complete three successful tours of South Africa as well as a tour of Europe, the band is heading around the country for a series of concerts titled The Parlotones Orchestrated.

It will see the band take their hits to venues across the country together with a chamber ensemble which has been arranged and will be conducted by composer and acclaimed musician, Brendan Jury. Continue reading →

CNN’s ‘African Voices’ meets Black Coffee, South African House DJ

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It can move us to dance and sing, providing the soundtrack to our daily lives, defining our cultures and establishing our identities. Today, music makers in Africa are generating the beat of a continent and remixing their own unique sounds into the African music scene.

This week, CNN’s ‘African Voices’ meets rising star Black Coffee, a South African DJ whose name is garnering attention around the world. Black Coffee is famous in South Africa for his original style of ‘Afropolitan’ house beats, and is fast becoming one of the hottest EDM DJs in the world. Continue reading →