Phumelele Mzimela on The Jazz Standard with Brenda Sisane
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Phumelele Mzimela is a Johannesburg-based vocalist, composer, academic, and educator whose work sits at the intersection of scholarship and sound. A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, Phumelele’s creative and intellectual practice spans film scoring, composition, performance, and research.
On stage, she is the frontwoman and bandleader of Phumelele and the Light. As an educator, panelist, and postgraduate researcher currently pursuing her Master of Music at Wits, Phumelele’s work insists that remembering South African music - especially through the lives and legacies of women like Dorothy Masuka - is a form of cultural protection. She joins us to reflect on why writing about music is radical activism, and why preservation is inseparable from imagination.
On stage, she is the frontwoman and bandleader of Phumelele and the Light. As an educator, panelist, and postgraduate researcher currently pursuing her Master of Music at Wits, Phumelele’s work insists that remembering South African music - especially through the lives and legacies of women like Dorothy Masuka - is a form of cultural protection. She joins us to reflect on why writing about music is radical activism, and why preservation is inseparable from imagination.
