Category Archives: Performance

Big Voice Jack Lerole on YouTube

July 26, 2009 – 10:10 am

Aaron “Big Voice Jack” Lerole was one of the most influential kwela stars and, in a revival of his popularity that is described in Keith Addison’s 1998 article ‘Return of the Big Voice‘, must have been one of the last of the originators to still be recording.
The story of how Big Voice Jack ended up [...]

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Buskaid to play at BBC Proms

June 23, 2007 – 4:26 pm

The City of Johannesburg website reports that the Buskaid Orchestra of Soweto will be performing as part of the BBC Proms in London on Sunday 15 July.
Buskaid plays mainly classical music, with a fusion of classic pop and kwela.
You can find out more about Buskaid in the Kwela Project’s post “Unite with the Buskaid Soweto [...]

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