The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences has awarded Mantombi Matotiyana's Songs of Greeting, Healing And Heritage the Best Musical Composition award.
Songs of Greeting, Healing And Heritage by Mantombi Matotiyana use of traditional formula gives a clean-cut performance using solo instruments to create contemporary music.
It was her way of life. She did not expect it to pay her bills. But then she met with Dizu Plaatjies, African music specialist at the University of Cape Town, who also hails from Tsolo. A true Xhosa matriarch with no formal education, she says that “there’s no place overseas where I haven’t been, only I do not know the place names”.
An award-winning performer, Plaatjies has been in the music business for well over 40 years. He travels widely on music and related academic business where he has taken Matotiyana along and teaches classes at the School of Manhattan in New York and holds regular classes in such places as Paris and Geneva outside his regular beat at UCT.
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