Siya Makuzeni

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Siyavuya "Siya" Makuzeni (born March 18, 1982 ) is a South African jazz musician ( trombone , vocals , composition). "As a singer, she convinces with her dynamics and on the trombone with her free expressive improvisation."

Live and act

Makuzeni, who grew up in East London , received formal music training only from 1996; She played the trombone in various bands in the jazz program of Stirling High School in East London and also took part in the National Youth Jazz Festival . In 2000 she began studying music and drama at Rhodes University and then continued her studies in the jazz program at Pretoria Technikon Music School . In 1999 she was part of Zim Ngqawana's big band . She won several youth competitions and recorded with the National Youth Jazz Band in 2001 .

In 2003 she performed with Marcus Wyatt at the North Sea Jazz Cape Town and in 2004 with Johnny Clegg in the Netherlands. Then she founded her own band, but also worked with Carlo Mombelli . In 2005 she received a scholarship for a stay in Italy in order to then work in Switzerland with The Goema Captains and Feya Faku . The album Out of This World (2016) with her sextet was released in 2016. In 2019 she released an album of the same name with Spaza , a collaborative sextet that also includes Nosisi Ngakane, Waldo Alexander, João Orecchia, Ariel Zamonsky and Gontse Makhene.

She also played with Sibongile Khumalo . In 2009 she brought Themba Mkhize to the recordings of his album Shosholoza with the SWR Big Band , with whom she also toured in 2011 and performed at the Bundesgartenschau Heilbronn in 2019 . She also presented herself with Omri Ziegele at the Münster Jazz Festival . She has also worked with Marcus Wyatt, Carlo Mombelli, Feya Faku ( The Colors They Bring ), the Prisoners of Strange ( I Stared into my Head ), Wendy Oldfield, Vusi Khumalo ( Reasons for Seasons ) and Dominic Eglis Plurism ( Azania in Mind ) recorded. She also sang on the soundtrack of the film Forse Dio è Malato (2008) by Franco Brogi Taviani .

Prizes and awards

In 2016 Makuzeni received the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait (Fabrica)
  2. ↑ Portrait (University of Basel) ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Spaza (band camp)
  4. ↑ Shosholoza - the sound of South Africa ( Memento from June 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Makuzeni, Siya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Makuzeni, Siyavuya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1982