Tag Archives: ZONKE DIKANA

WHERE TIME, SPACE AND CHANGE CONVERGE – Listen to afro soul music, wearing a Basotho blanket, from Pretoria to KwaZakhele.

Five creative people give you what they have, with open hands and open hearts. The South African way to creativity it is characterised by perceive the world in new ways, through hidden patterns. This way, the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality come to special people it is the work of painters and songwriters, fashion designers, writers …

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A MINIMALIST SOUND, LEAVING THINGS OUT – Zonke Dikana: Moving around afrosoul and neo soul.

I am strong, but I am not that strong. Her genre of music was majorly house music, before she switched to afrosoul and neo soul. During early years as a singer, she worked with Joe Nina and Deborah Fraser. She had her big break when she wrote a song for Germany-based band Jazzkantine. Born in KwaZakhele (Eastern Cape, South Africa), …

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