Soweto Gospel Choir
Hope is the very thing that fuels dreams, spurs innovation and ignites perseverance. It costs nothing but yet it is worth everything. Critically acclaimed South African world music sensations Soweto Gospel Choir will release their highly anticipated first new recording in four years, HOPE, on Shanachie Entertainment September 23, 2022 on the eve of 53-city North American tour.
The three-time Grammy-winning Choir, whose staunch supporters have included both President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has performed for everyone from President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey and collaborated with Peter Gabriel, Bono, Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé and John Legend, among numerous others. Since the award-winning Choir’s introduction to American audiences in 2004, they have consistently won the hearts of fans with their instantly inviting and awe-inspiring performances. In a time when people are yearning for good news and positive messages, Soweto Gospel Choir fills a void. Their ability to transcend race, religion, age, sex and language, is a welcomed balm. They are on a mission to continue to spread their much-needed messages of love, unity and hope to audiences throughout the world.
“Both South Africa and America have experienced the same type of segregation and oppression," explains the charismatic Choir Master Shimmy Jiyane. "Music was and continues to be a way that the people protest and express opposition. It can express suffering and reach the soul with a message of freedom and hope like nothing else. Through the universal language of music, people are unified globally and they are healed and given hope through the power of songs."
