Music Multimedia South Africa

The Opera UCT talent showcase took place this week, and director Jeremy Silver announced the plan for 2024. Jeremy Silver's insights not only reaffirmed Opera UCT's status as a world-class institution but also highlighted its leadership in the realm of opera.

Thebe Magugu's Spotify Fashion Forward playlist was brought to life on 15 April at NIROX Sculpture Park in Johannesburg. Magugu, the first African designer to curate the platform's Fashion Forward playlist, used South African musicians to convey the stories that inspired his newest folkloric collection.

Grammy-nominated musician, producer and DJ, Bonobo, performed at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on 24 March 2023.

Ronan Keating, known for his songs 'When You Say Nothing At All' and 'If Tomorrow Never Comes', performed live at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town on 3 March 2023.

Platoon honours South African singers for Heritage Month. Simphiwe Dana, Bongeziwe Mabandla, Mandisi Dyantyis and Nobuhle are honoured for their musical contributions with a mural in Maboneng, Johannesburg.

In this episode, we hear more from four-time Grammy Award winner PJ Morton and his humble beginnings.

Sipho Mabuse at 70 played to a full house at Daisy Jones Bar, in Stellenbosch, on Sunday, 15 May.

Large music festivals have been unable to take place due to pandemic restrictions. The announcement of the Liefde by die Dam 2022 festival concert dates was greeted with great excitement and tickets for both the Johannesburg and Cape Town editions sold out quickly.

Ziggy Alberts releases the acoustic video for his new single, ‘Tattoos’.

Alastair Thomas from Shortstraw chats the glory days of MK and Boosh & The Boh, while they figure out their comeback ahead of their new album drop.

Zoë Modiga chats her illustrious career, her trailblazing mindset and her diverse two albums.

Louise Carver releases her first brand new single in over a year with ‘Take My Hand’.

GoodLuck and choreographer Rudi Smit collaborate to create the official music video for hit-single "Bird of Paradise". The music video was directed by Scott Hurly and Rudi Smit and was filmed by Josh Rowe.

Duncan Bentley from metal band Vulvodynia chats his constant hustle, creepy stalkers, and the band's meteoric rise.

Over at Texx Talks, we realised that we had been going for one hot minute. Almost two years, just under 100 episodes and, with some deft sidestepping of the pandemic at large, we have our first episode recorded live, in front of an audience! Armand Joubert and the “Legend of Leggeh”, Peach van Pletzen join host Tecla Ciolfi as they look back on the episodes that were, and how everyone has been making sense of life in the latter part of 2021. There are bad FX, mandatory tequilas and just one hell of a good time in this one, so sit back and put yourself in the room for Texx Talks’ very first live recording, from the notorious Romeo’s in Melville, Johannesburg. A special thanks to Ray-Ban, TOMS and Victoria Falls Gin for making this the best possible time one could have during a pandemic....