ICYMI: Music icon Helmut Lotti tells us about his love of Afrikaans and Iron Maiden ahead of his SA tour (via Channel24Music )
Cape Town – The name Helmut Lotti is synonymous with a smooth and silky voice that South Africans love to listen to on the radio and watch in concert.
"It's going to be a two-hour show with an intermission. I'm taking my rhythm section from Belgium and I'm also working with a local choir and orchestra from South Africa with a strings and brass section. It's going to be like I used to perform in the past, like I always did when I came to South Africa. For one night only.""I love the culture, the people and the country, it's very diverse. You have the world in one country with 12 official languages.
"It will be a mix of old and new. The first part and then the second part but I don't want to give away too much. My new CD is called, so I'll be singing a lot of soul songs in the first half. And then in the second half of the show I will be doing a best of." "I don't really meld the two genres . I do big arrangements of soul classics. Which are basically well-known soul songs with a big orchestra. I didn't mix any real classical music onto this album. I just arranged with the orchestra."
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