9 October 2015

3:32 PM

Via The Moon Rises Productions (PTY)LTD

JHB, South Africa

 

Born Bronwen Clacherty, this young musician’s love for music is a thing to be spoken about, she grew up singing she says; ‘I always sang as a child and continued to love singing, professionally i started singing 3 years ago, I studied music from when I was a little girl, I took it up at the University of Cape Town majoring in Piano, Jazz Percussion and African Music.

 

Music is her first love and is an expression of who she is, Music is a part of her journey and when on stage you can instantly tell that she was born to move people and heal them through music. She particularly loves African sounds; she plays percussion instruments such as the Vibraphone, Congas, Ochestral Percussion and Umrhubhe (isiXhosa mouth bow) and the Zimbabwean Mbira, the thumb piano. She says being African to her is being born in Africa, it means to belong to a place that is like no other in the world. Being a white South African she loves the cultures and how they come together creating what we call a “Rainbow Nation” furthermore she has dedicated her music to her recent project THOLAKELE. She calls herself Tholakele, this name was given to her during her high school days by her friends, she took isiZulu as a second language it started off as a bit of a joke seeing that she is white. Her and her friend were to be a combination.

 

She was Tholakele and her friend was Lahlekile which translates as Lost and Found. She continued to use the name when she worked with Maskandi musicians who spoke Zulu mostly, they embraced my name. Most of her friends still call her Thola, or Tholi which is short for Tholakele. It has become her other name, rightfully so The Tholakele Project is her way of making music accessible to all Africans, her influences are from all over the world. She also writes and performs with other musicians, rearranging traditional songs from the isiXhosa, SeSotho and IsiZulu traditions. She works with different artists in her most recent collaboration she worked with Mikhaela Kruger who is a keyboardist from Cape Town, she has helped introduce a new sound to the Tholakele Project, she plans to add a few more artists like Comeladies Mtolo who is a Maskandi guitarist to the project. They will be taking the project all over South Africa before reaching out to Africa at large.

 

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For the full article go to: Conte Magazine

 

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