Two-time South African Music Award nominee Bongeziwe Mabandla will tour Australia for the first time this November, he will showcase at the Southern Hemisphere’s premier roots industry conference the Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) in Melbourne at the Toff in Town on Thursday 13 November 2014 plus he will perform three shows at the Mullumbimby Music Festival in Northern NSW and a headline show at Foundry 616 in Sydney.
2014 has been a big year for Bongeziwe Mabandla with his perfect blend of Urban-African folk, heartfelt lyrics and honest delivery, seeing him take to the stage in Germany at Africa Festival, at the renowned Primavera Sound Festival in Spain, at Sukiyaki Meets the World Festival in Japan. Shows in North Korea and also he is currently taking part in the One Beat program in the USA, an incubator for music-based social entrepreneurship where innovative musicians from around the world launch collaborative projects designed to make a positive impact on local and global communities. At home he has collaborated with Joss Stone and Vieux Farka Toure on their South African tours.
Bongeziwe has created a matchless Afro-folk sound, over which his soulful voice delivers in both Xhosa and English. Influenced by artists like Tracy Chapman, Simphiwe Dana, Jabu Khanyile and Oliver Mtukudzi, his sound has a rhythmically grass-roots vibe, while fusing elements of traditional Xhosa music, Mbaqanga, Soul, Hip-hop and Dub.
Listen back to Flight 1067 to Africa with Stani, for a live set from Bongeziwe Mabandla.
