Puna Gabasiane

Bio

Punah Gabasiane is a Motswana Afro-jazz singer who shot to fame in 2001 with her album titled ‘Introducing Punah’. Born and raised in Serowe, central district of Botswana, Punah had always wanted to be a singer from an early age. She attended high school at Swaneng Hill School. After high school, she decided to pursue her love for dancing and performing. She joined the Ditholwana Traditional Troupe as a lead singer and traditional dancer and represented her country at the SADC Music Festival in Harare as part of the Ditholwana Traditional Dance Troupe.

She decided to include music in her portfolio and joined a renowned KTM choir where she sang as a cabaret singer at the Grand Palm Casino and Resort Hotel and other hotels around the country. In 2007 she released her second album titled ‘Tshwaraganang’.
In April 2011 she launched an album called BOTHO. The ten-track Afro-jazz album successfully fuses contemporary and traditional music, social commentary and Afro-hypnotic jazz. She is among the best lyricists in the country who in 2002 enrolled to study a diploma in Business Administration while doing jazz singing.

Since 2001 she has managed to scoop several awards namely Best Live Band at the 2009 Botswana Presidential Award, Best Live Band at the 2008 Botswana Presidential Award, Best Female Artist and Best Jazz Album at the 2007 Botswana Music Awards, 2nd Position at the Botswana Orange Botswerere Artists Award, Best Jazz Artist at the Botswana Music Awards in 2006 and Best Gospel Album at the Botswana Music Awards in 2001.

BWGaborone, Botswana

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Profile added by Ano Shumba on 08 Aug 2016
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