Thandi Ntuli Live at Youngblood Africa

ABOUT

Having experimented with a solo setup which she then called Ndiza at The Orbit, Johannesburg in 2017, Thandi now makes a return with a stripped down performance of a her lyrical musings at Youngblood Gallery in Cape Town.

Ndiza in isiZulu means "fly” – a powerful image for Ntuli, who has touched on themes of duality, exile, newness, rebirth and freedom in a lot of her work.

Her most recent project, Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë, released in July 2022, is a story about the mystery of awakening, re-birth or re-MEMBERING.

It tells a tale of a long solitary sojourn in Exile, from Self and from the Truth and speaks to the treasures of joy, hope through uncertainty, self-compassion and other lessons gathered on the journey Home.

Her performance will be centered around, but not limited to the music and storytelling of Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë, with the hope of bringing to life this powerful sense of a home going through what she calls a: Portal Into A New World.

About Thandi Ntuli :-

Through her work over a hitherto 13-year career, Thandi has carved space for herself, and others seeking home, to fully exist -- thereby firmly situating herself and the contemporary South African generation in the musical cannon. Her frank-yet-empathetic and vulnerable gaze on herself, and the world, has birthed a body of work that facilitates our access to our histories, presents and futures by creating in music literature the existence of language, experiences and space that speak to us. For young South Africans and creatives -- not least of all, women -- Thandi represents a home-going to ourselves, each other and our communities.

(Excerpt from website: www.thandintuli.com)

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