Thandiswa speaks about shutting down shops with Oskido, freestyling Ingoma & more on

Описание: Helen Herimbi presents: i(m)bali LIVE featuring Thandiswa Mazwai.

In this new season premiere, the multi-genre South African icon speaks to the music journalist in front of a live audience.

They discuss:
Growing up eNdofaya (05:30)
What books shaped her thinking as a kid (07:37)
Forcing her friends to listen to her sing (09:50)
Her first studio experience with friend and future broadcaster, Thabiso Sikwane (15:50)
How kwaito informed her early years (18:35)
Composing the lyrics to Jacknife's Fester (20:30)
Heeding the call to become a musician (23:52)
Meeting Don Laka at her Shell Road to Fame audition (27:30)
Making Bongo Maffin's Summertime (30:40)
Fighting for equal pay after joining Bongo Maffin (32:50)
Meeting Miriam Makeba and altering her music journey (35:20)
A record label exec suggesting she induce labour to go on tour (38:04)
That moment she sat between Nelson Mandela and Michael Jackson for lunch (40:53)
Chasing her late mother and finding a breakthrough (43:50)
How she stepped in to raise her siblings after her mother passed (45:51)
Making the decision to pursue a solo career (47:30)
Meeting Sipho Sithole and his contribution to Zabalaza (49:14)
What led to her writing Nizalwa Ngobani (50:25)
Her reluctance to be called a brand (57:01)
Feeling invisible to the world (1:00:34)
How she freestyled the inception of Ingoma (1:04:13)
Bra Hugh offering to have a solo on Ingoma (1:08:06)
Busi Mhlongo feeling like a second mom to Thandiswa (1:10:15)
Refusing to sing after Busi Mhlongo passed on and the depression that came with it (1:13:37)
What the Belede album was initially called (1:18:50)
Working on her memoir (1:23:30)
Conquering shame (1:26:01)
Her erotica album and collaborating with Meshell Ndegeocello (1:29:29)
The Amandla Womxn Festival (1:30:30)
Owning her uniqueness (1:37:40)
Commercial viability and following your heart (1:39:04)
How knowledge of self unlocks her creativity and if she'll ever be known as anything beyond a Xhosa woman (1:41:57)

Filmed at the J&B Hive, Johannesburg.

Shot and edited: Outre.

Sound architect: Kitso Moremi.

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