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SUMMARY:Bongeziwe Mabandla
LOCATION:Union Chapel
DESCRIPTION:Bongeziwe Mabandla sings almost entirely in isiXhosa\, and his 
 audience\, in Berlin\, in\n\nVancouver\, in a restored henequen plantation
  outside Mérida\, sings every word back. That's the trick of it\, and the
  point of it. The language is a door\, not a wall.\n\nHe was born in Tsolo
 \, a small town in the rural Eastern Cape\, and raised on the soft-loud ar
 chitecture of church choirs\, Bantu folk songs\, and a household where mus
 ic was a part of every day. The guitar arrived at seventeen. Drama school 
 in Johannesburg followed\, then a quiet pivot: songs\, open mics\, his 201
 2 debut Umlilo\, and a Top 10 finish at France's Prix Découvertes RFI bef
 ore most South African listeners had caught up.\n\nThe real engine of the 
 catalogue\, though\, is his partnership with Mozambican producer and instr
 umentalist Tiago Correia-Paulo. Tiago has been the architect alongside him
  since Mangaliso -the 2017 album that won Best Alternative at the SAMAs an
 d established the formula that still holds: Mabandla's guitar and tenor at
  the centre\, Correia-Paulo's electronics blooming around them. iimini (20
 20)- a song-cycle about a relationship's unspooling\, dropped one day afte
 r South Africa's hard lockdown began\, landed on American Songwriter's Top
  Albums of the Year and got NPR calling it "a gorgeous saving grace in try
 ing times." amaXesha (2023) was named The Guardian's Global Album of the M
 onth.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/dkomq6-bongeziwe-mabandla-19th-nov
 -union-chapel-london-tickets
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