Getting together to experience music can feel transcendent, whether you're raising your voice in song at your place of worship or you're dancing all night long at the club. With History of House, a ...

Lungile Siyaphi was crowned Miss Soweto 2025 at the 46th White Star pageant, an evening filled with elegance, talent, and inspiration, celebrating womanhood, community, and leadership in Soweto.

We meet on a sunny morning at Lebo’s Backpackers in Orlando West. The place is buzzing: music is playing and tourists are heading off to see the sights of Soweto on bicycles and tuk-tuks. Maria Malepa ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Choirmaster Vincent “Shimmy” Jiyane has a favourite memory from the many times the Soweto Gospel Choir performed for former South ...

The Soweto Greendale House, in partnership with Ekujabuleni Kwabantwana Home of Care, hosted a heritage celebration event at Soweto Hospice on September 24. The day saw the Mphatlalatsane Cultural ...

The Soweto Gospel Choir releases three singles, continues ‘Hope” tour in the U.S. *“I’m a founding member….23 years in the choir,” said Soweto Gospel Choir Master Shimmy Jiyane as we talked about the ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The Soweto Gospel Choir brightened Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall with their energy and ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

Samthing Soweto has amassed a string of record-breaking hits, sold out shows nationwide, and established himself as one of the continent’s most versatile artists– yet he believes this is only the ...

As World Cup 2010 draws to a close this week in South Africa, we look closely at “Soweto,” a new book by the South African photographer Jodi Bieber. Over lunch at 4 Times Square in May, Bieber told me ...