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Artist
Sibusile Xaba
12+ albums
south africajazzfolkguitarsinger-songwriter
about
Charismatic guitar savant Sibusile Xaba reframes maskandi and the avant garde into his own humanist manifesto. With a vocal style that is part dreamscaping and part ancestral invocation, Xaba divines as opposed to plainly singing. Combined with a guitar style that is rooted in expressive picking, Xaba's music shatters the confines of genre, taking only the fundamentals from mentors such as Madala Kunene and Dr Philip Tabane and imbuing these with a mythology and improvisational intensity all of his own. His debut double album – „Unlearning‟ & „Open Letter to Adoniah‟ - was released internationally on 4 August 2017 to critical acclaim. 2017 saw Sibusile promote South African arts and culture and facilitate cultural exchanges by touring through various countries in Africa, United kingdom and Europe, where he performed at a number of prestigious music festivals (e.g. Shambala and Jazz ala Villette), music venues (e.g. Ronnie Scotts) , radio stations (e.g. Worldwide FM & Radio France) as well as facilitate South African music workshops in numerous schools (e.g Lusaka, Maputo, Accra, Paris, Brussels & Berlin to name a few). User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
