Nina Mkhize to perform at Chief Albert Luthuli remembrance concert

Vocalist Nina Mkhize and her band will visit Groutville on Saturday, July 22 at 11am where she will grace the stage at The Groutville Market Grounds as part of the 50 years Remembrance Celebrations of The Luthuli Museum.

Alongside her at the free concert will be local poet Let Da Poet.

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Nina Mkhize is a jazz trained vocalist and composer and two-time winner of the Old Mutual Jazz Encounters Awards from Durban.

Her repertoire includes original jazz and African music compositions and Renditions of art songs standards.

Her contralto voice has been described as breathy and sultry, and the style of her music ranges from swing to funk to boss nova. Many of the songs she performs are original compositions.

She hopes to release her album of original music, inspired by a culmination of life experiences in the world soon-to which she attests have helped expand world view, thus growing her writing talents as an artist which chronicle her journey through life in the jazz and African music idioms.

Nina’s band for this performance would be Nina Mkhize on vocals, Mandla Zikalala on bass guitar, Bucco Xaba on drums and Mthobisi Mthalane on piano.

Let Da Poet

Lethu Nkwanyana is a humble man who expresses his love for God and creation through a simple way of putting words on paper turning them into poetry.

Let Da Poet is his stage name, for he believes that God is the ultimate poet so he simply ‘lets da poet speak’.

A versatile Christian poet, who has an exuberant stage presence, Nkwanyana accommodates his audience by using both English and isiZulu, leaving his audience marvelled by his flamboyant choice of words.

This concert is part of the Luthuli Legacy Walk and Half Marathon and the Concerts SA venue circuit.

The 11,5-km walk will commemorate Chief Luthuli’s final walk to the railway bridge where there was allegedly a train accident that led to his untimely death. The walk will end at The Groutville Market Grounds where the concert will take place.

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