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All yellow: Amanda Black’s fourth studio album From My Soil to Yours has influences from R&B to pandza and hip-hop.
CHRISTER MOFENYI KOBEDI

A musical journey to love and healing

Amanda Black says the making of her new album had a lot to do with accepting who she is

  • Lesego Chepape
3 min read
The 21st Cape Town based international Jazz festival is returning in March 2023, after a three year absence.
AMANDA BLACK

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival makes it’s return

The 21st Cape Town based international Jazz festival is returning in March 2023, after a three year absence

  • Bongeka Gumede
2 min read
Winners of the 2013 International Opera Awards “Chorus of the Year”, the Cape Town Opera Chorus will perform a new one-hour showcase of African and African American spirituals. (Getty)
AMANDA BLACK

Top 10 must see events at Makhanda Festival

For the first time in two years, The National Arts Festival is back with an in-person star-studded list of artists and performers

  • Gugulethu Tshabalala
4 min read
‘I live and breathe music’: Yvonne Chaka Chaka says she finds collabs with young artists such as Amanda Black, Christer Kobedi and Sun-El energising, and she gives props to duo Blaq Diamond
AMANDA BLACK

Q&A Sessions: ‘I am not going to hang up my microphone anytime soon’ — Yvonne Chaka Chaka

The award-winning music icon and humanitarian Yvonne ‘Princess of Africa’ Chaka Chaka speaks to Ntombizodwa Makhoba on being a strict gogo to her three adorable grandchildren,…

  • Ntombizodwa Makhoba
6 min read
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AMANDA BLACK

Slice of life: A push towards my ambition

I enjoy getting the word out and influencing creative conversations

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
1 min read
The Minister of Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa rescheduled the exchange between Kenya and South Africa to February 2019 so he could attend it, yet he still could not make it. Photo: Gallo Images.
AMANDA BLACK

Arts department messes up again

"We have someone in charge of the department who understands how best to serve the interests of their stakeholders."

  • Zukiswa Wanner
4 min read