The making of Paradise Road – Joy recording 1979/80 By Greg Cutler Greg has kindly given me his in the room story of that famous recording, Greg did the work. The story begins sometime in late 1978 early 1979. Patric Van Blerk, who was on a sabbatical from the music industry at the time, had shown a…
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– Thoko Thomo aka “Shukuma Thoko,”
A Common Hunger to Sing
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Thokozile Elizabeth Ndlozi has been silent for too long. But like her 1950s namesake Thoko Thomo, the speedball inferno from George Goch known for her high-octave package – she sang, acted, danced, pouted, and teased audiences and fellow collaborators with peerless brio – before being effectively “disappeared” from public memory prior to her actual death in 1995, Thoko Ndlozi, who died on 14 January at 74, just won’t die.
Not dying – as opposed to being dead and famous, or alive and unseen, unfelt, unheard and unrecognised – is a remarkable feat on its own.