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Jazz & Documentary Photographer | Visual Story Teller | 2nd Place Winner Jazz World Photo 2024 | Winner of 22nd Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Honors Award 2019 🇿🇦

Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined April 2010
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Happy 84th birthday mam’ Abigail Kubheka!
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Sibulele Gcilitshana Film actor
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Love and commitment are mostly associated with legendary music couple Letta Mbulu and Caiphus Semenya. 🎶❤️
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Tsakani "TK" Mhinga Black Butterfly
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Johannesburg Park Station!
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Lulu Dikana 🕯️ 1978-2014
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Gregory Porter
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 🕊 (1936-2018)
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New home for live Jazz in Jozi loading… Opening soon! 🎷 🎼 #KingsKraal #fortheloveoflivemusic
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Tsakani "TK" Mhinga (1978 – 2006) ”TK” was a multiple SAMA award-winning Mzansi R&B singer, arranger, and songwriter. In her lifetime she unquestionably occupied South Africa's R&B throne and was one of the country's prominent vocalists. #FilmPhotography #MzansiIcons
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RIP: ‘Shaka ILembe’ and ‘Yizo Yizo’ co-creator Teboho Mahlatsi. Your Legacy will live on forever! 💔🕯️
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Long Live Ray "Chikapa" Phiri, you changed my world. Thank you for the music! 🎶 🕯️ (23 March 1947 – 12 July 2017) #riprayphiri
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On this day, 11 November 1935, Gogo Esther Mahlangu was born. She is celebrating her 88th birthday today—happy birthday to a living legend.
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Hugh Masekela, Caiphus Semenya and Jonas Gwangwa
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Sipho Gumede (1952-2004) Legendary bass player who recorded 18 albums under his own name and four with his band Sakhile. He collaborated with various musicians such as Hugh Masekela and Brenda Fassie. In 2004, his album "Blues for My Mother" went platinum.
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Sipho Gumede
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Happy Birthday in Heaven, Lebo Mathosa (1977 - 2006) 🕯️🕊️ 😇
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Remembering a lady of song, mom’ Sibongile Khumalo (24.09.57) - (28.01.21) 😇🕊🎵
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Moses Taiwa Molelekwa 🕯️ 1973 - 2001
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Coming soon! A new venue for live jazz in Johannesburg is on its way. Get ready to experience the love of live music at Kings Kraal in Bryanston. 🎷🎼 #fortheloveoflivemusic
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Simphiwe Dana
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Remembering a lady of song, mom’ Sibongile Khumalo (24.09.57) - (28.01.21) 😇🕊🎵
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Sankomota is a band that was formed in Lesotho during the late 70s under the name Uhuru. However, during one of their tours, they were deported from South Africa because they were considered subversive. In 1984, they changed their name to Sankomota and recorded their first album.
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Miriam Zenzile Makeba would have turned 92 today. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Mama Africa!🕯️💫💐
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Legendary South African grand master pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim performing live at "The Water from an Ancient Well" tour - SunBet Arena, Time Square, Pretoria, Gauteng. April 14, 2024
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Abdullah Ibrahim, the most distinguished South African pianist, was born in Cape Town on 9 October 1934. He is known for his outstanding piano skills and his legacy as a jazz pianist-composer. This year marks his 90th birthday and the start of a world tour.
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Sipho Gumede 1952-2004
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Happy heavenly birthday, Zim Ngqawana🕊 (25 Dec 1959–10 May 2011)
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Nduduzo Makhathini
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Happy 89th Birthday - Abdullah Ibrahim 9 October 1934 Captured at The Jazz Epistles Live Performance - Emperors Palace, Johannesburg June 15, 2016 #LivingLegend #DollarBrand #JazzPianist #RememberingOurJazzLegends #Jazz #SAIcons #JazzPhotography #JazzPortraits
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Mfaz'Omnyama
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Happy Heavenly Birthday To The Legend Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri (23 March 1947 – 12 July 2017) He Would Have Turned 77 Today! 🕊🎼
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Remembering my buddy, Bob “The Jammer” Mabena (1969-2020) “I find happiness in almost any and everything. The glow of the moon, a howling wind, a bird in mid-flight, helping others. I never struggle with happiness at all.” - Bob Mabena Rest in power, my friend! 🕊️
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Thandiswa Mazwai
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Remembering Gloria Bosman and Jabu Khanyile at South African Music Awards 2004 🕯️ ✨
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Zoë Modiga : Unbounded! The Orbit - Home Of Jazz 05 May 2017
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This is an appreciation post for a living legend, Ma'am Abigail Kubheka. 💐
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Hands of a grandmaster pianist, Abdullah Ibrahim 🎼 🎹
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Thandiswa Nyameka Mazwai, also known as supreme “King Tha” by her adoring fans, has been a pioneer in the music and entertainment industry for more than two decades.
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Sibongile Khumalo
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Phumula ngokuthula qhawe lamaqhawe. Our legend and veteran photojournalist, Peter Magubane. (18.01.1932 - 01.01.2024) Uyibekile induku ebandla! 🙏🏿 #rippetermagubane #legendaryphotographer
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Nomfundo Xaluva
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Thandi Ntuli
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The 19-year-old elegant Gloria Bosman with Tonia Moller in ‘93. This was her 1st performance at Market Theatre musical ‘SA Love/Uthando/ Lerato/Liefde’ ft. six extraordinary SA women artists and a tremendous line-up of musos, including the late Barney Rachabane & Andre Abrahamse.
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Busi Mhlongo
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Nduduzo Makhathini KZN International Jazz Festival 2023 Durban, KwaZulu Natal 03 Jun 2023
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Mandisi Dyantyis
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Madosini
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Zoë Modiga is an artist who represents the present and future of SA music drawing from the roots of African storytelling, Jazz composition, and Motown soul but creating a sound entirely her own in order to communicate an evolving African sound without losing its essence.
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Feya Faku on a framed canvas 🔲
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Kwaito star Simphiwe Mpamile, better known by his stage name Brown Dash with Lebo Mathosa, kwaito queen at South African Music Awards (SAMA) 2005 May their souls rest in peace! ✨
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Music veterans, Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu. Their love story is one of persistence and putting each other first. This has seen them win over the hearts of fans for decades.
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Happy Birthday, bro Andile Yenana! 🥂
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Siphokazi Maraqana
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Andile Yenana - Jazz & Classical Encounters 2022 Vol 4 At Spier Wine Farm, Cape Town
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Father Trevor Huddleston presented Hugh Masekela with his first trumpet in 1954, which he received from Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong. He then requested Uncle Sauda, the leader of Johannesburg Native Municipal Brass Band, to teach Masekela the trumpet's fundamentals.
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Downtown Jozi - Gauteng Maboneng!
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On this day, 2018 Trumpeter extraordinaire and singer-songwriter Hugh Masekela. A jazz pioneer and a campaigner against apartheid in exile. Died aged 78, he was one of the world’s finest and most distinctive horn players! Rest on, son of the soil 🕊️
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Bra Gibson Kente (1932-2004) A multi-talented artist who pioneered the "township musical" during apartheid in South Africa. He wrote and performed plays that depicted life in the townships, and trained black actors and singers at a time when creativity was stifled by apartheid.
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Abdullah Ibrahim 🎹 🎼
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Today, I remember and celebrate the remarkable life of the most incredible friend and sister, Gloria Bosman. Happy Birthday In Heaven My Friend! ✨✨✨
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Winston Mankunku Ngozi - Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown Precinct December 2000
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Ringo Madlingozi
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Dr. Esteher Mahlangu
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Nduduzo Makhathini
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Jazz pianist, Thandi Ntuli🎵
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You were prepared for God’s eternal journey. You shall be remembered for the good you did. May you rest easy in grace and love! 🕊️✨🙏🏾❤️
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Frank Leepa (1953-2003) and Tsepo Tshola (1953-2021) founding members of Sankomota 🎼
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Genius, Vision and Broken Dreams: Remembering Bra Zim Ngqawana 🎶
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Jazz maestro Dr. Nduduzo Makhathini recently obtained his Ph.D. in music from Stellenbosch University.
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Zoë Modiga Standard Bank Joy Of Jazz 2023 Sandton Convention Centre #SBJOJ2023
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Happy Birthday, Siya Makuzeni. 🥂🍾🎂🎼
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Zoë Modiga
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Thandi Klaasen (1931-2017) and Zim Ngqawana (1958-2011) 🕊️🕊️ #yourlegacylivesonforever
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Hugh Masekela - "the father of South African jazz".
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Jazz Masters, Zimology Ngqawana and Herbie Tsoaeli 🎵 😇 🕊 🕯️
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Neo Muyanga (b. Soweto) lives and works in Cape Town. Muyanga is a composer and sound artist whose work traverses new opera, jazz improvisation, Zulu and Sesotho idiomatic songs. He initially trained to sing in choirs in Soweto and learned madrigals in Italy in the 1990s.
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#FeyaFaku 🎼🎺
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Ray Phiri
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Hugh Masekela Live at Innesfree Park Jazz Concert 1996
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Wynton Marsalis and Gloria Bosman at The Market Theatre
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Bheki Mseleku Performing Live in Johannesburg 1993 Ft. Herbie Tsoaeli - bass, Sydney Mnisi - saxophone, Marcus Wyatt - trumpet and Lulu Gontsana - drums
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#tbt This photo makes me so sad. It was captured in 1986, receiving a basic photography certificate from Kodak before they left the country. 😔 #MyCameraSavedMeFromPoverty
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Paul Hanmer & McCoy Mrubata 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert at Joburg Theatre, Johannesburg 17 Jun 2021
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Abigail Kubheka and Jonas Gwangwa
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Jonathan Butler, Kirk Whalum and Oleta Adams
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Miriam Makeba receiving the KORA Award for Best Female Artist of Africa in 1996 04.03.32 - 09.11.08 🕯️
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Busi Mhlongo (1947-2010) Virtuoso singer, dancer and composer
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Wynton Marsalis and Gloria Bosman in conversation at The Market Theatre – Newtown #ripgloriabosman 🕯
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Winners of Jazz World Photo 2024 🥇Luciano Rossetti (Italy) 🥈Siphiwe Mhlambi (South Africa) 🥉Jacek Piotrowski (Poland) UFFO Trutnov.Czech Republic. ©Олег Панов photo.
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GRAMMY-nominated jazz vocalist Somi performing her new album Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba, paying tribute to the late Makeba’s invaluable contributions to music and messages of social justice live at State Theatre Pretoria 27 Mar 2022 © Siphiwe Mhlambi
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The Living Legend, Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse 🎼
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Between 1955-1963, when Peter Magubane left Drum magazine, he covered most of the major political events in the country and befriended the leading political figures of the liberation movements, in particular he was a close friend of Nelson and Winnie Mandela. #RIPPeterMagubane
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Tsepo Tsholo
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I am so sad to hear about the passing of our legendary bass maestro, Musa Manzini. May his soul rest in everlasting peace! Condolences to his family and friends! 💔💔💔
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