nov 28, 2014
Jazz singer Nomfundo Xaluva has won the 2014 Arts and Culture Trust ImpACT Award for Young Professionals in the music and singing category.
The image of a female jazz singer wearing a seductive dress, singing into an old-school microphone in a small smoky bar is not how jazz singer Nomfundo Xaluva wants to be pictured.
"A lot of the time, woman in jazz are expected to be vocalists who have to look pretty and have to be the eye candy of the band and I think we are trying to change that. Our artistry and skill goes beyond how we look," says Xaluva.
"People revere jazz singers but in terms of them taking jazz vocalists seriously, we still have a long way to go before that perception is completely transformed."
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